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Examples

  • "I s'pose you'll do syme as Mr. 'Inde ... leave it to me to get the things for you, an' charge it up?"

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

  • Comes in any time, 'e does, an' expects a 'ot dinner just the syme.

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

  • Well, the Poor Laws and the 'ole Government is just in the syme muddle because the men' ave tried to do the national 'ousekeepin' without the women! '

    The Convert 1907

  • If you men only could see it, we got the syme cause, and if you 'elped us you'd be' elpin yerselves. '

    The Convert 1907

  • If you men only could see it, we got the syme cause, and if you 'elped us you'd be' elpin 'yerselves.'

    The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

  • Laws and the 'ole Government is just in the syme muddle because the men

    The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

  • Chopping and chynging, always the syme -- to your old wife

    The Lord of the Sea 1906

  • I'll tell 'im you're' ere, sir; 'e'd be sure to like to meet another gentleman of the syme cloth, has they say.' '

    The Lunatic At Large 1905

  • You bring yer muvvers 'ere,' e'll do the syme for them.

    The Foundations John Galsworthy 1900

  • Excuse my hesitytion -- these little 'ouses IS so much the syme.

    The Foundations John Galsworthy 1900

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