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The folk on the welcome way shov'd out the wood-bound.
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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The war-array stately; then out the lads shov'd her,
The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous
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Dick's description of it all, and his opinion that the brother "might have been just such another little chap at first as Joe," and "What would that brother feel," said Dick, "when he knew what he had done? for he done it," said Dick; "he done that girl to death, the same as if he'd shov'd her out of that winder hisself."
J. Cole Emma Gellibrand
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Isaac shov'd th 'stuff into his pockets an' wor off after her as sooin as he could, for shoo'd stirred him up a bit, an 'he gript his walkin' stick an 'pooled his hat ovver his een as mich as to say he thowt it high time to let fowk know what they wor abaat.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Awl stir it, or else awl rive it's legs off! 'an he shov'd his arm up, an daan it coom an browt all th' sooit wi it, an flapt it into us faces wol we wor ommost smoored.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Then aw shov'd it under th 'piller an' shut mi een an 'tried to fancy what sooart ov a lass shoo must be, an' someha aw fell asleep, an 'aw dremt, -- but aw will'nt tell yo what aw dremt for fear yo laaf.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Feels as if it was shov'd out, sir," growled the big sailor; "but lor 'bless your' art, sir, I don't mind."
In the King's Name The Cruise of the "Kestrel" George Manville Fenn 1870
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_Allay_ to my Intention, and on I went to _Shoe-lane_ end but there meeting with a _Bully Hack_ of the Town, he wou'd have shov'd me down, which my Spirit resenting, tho 'a _brawny
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes Daniel Defoe 1696
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This is further confirm'd by this observable, that that Iron or Steel will keep longer from rusting which is covered with this vitrify'd case: Thus also Lead will, by degrees, be all turn'd into a litharge; for that colour which covers the top being scum'd or shov'd aside, appears to be nothing else but a litharge or vitrify'd Lead.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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