t'have

"Boss thought it'd be a good idea t'have a few lizard-stickers around in case his magic really got rusty."

A Corridor in the Asylum 2010

'Tis less grief to be foul, than t'have been fair.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008

'Tis less grief to be foul, than t'have been fair.

Archive 2008-01-01 Flavia 2008

Gawd A'mighty, Andy, I ain't scared o 'your Pa, nor no man livin,' I want t'have you come along!

Act I, Scene ii 1920

"I'm glad, anyway, t'have eased your mind so soon, let alone to have cut short your sarchin 'which must ha' been painful enough -- in a house o 'sickness."

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

'I ought t'have warned you -- I always run in circles, this condish'n.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Then Nature seems t'have learnt the poys'ning Trade,

The Third Part of the Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley Being his Six Books of Plants 1689

What ought t'have brought me Honour, brought me shame!

Poems 1686

_ Now I cou'd rave, t'have lost an opportunity which industry nor chance can give again -- when on the yielding point, a cursed fit of

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

Ovid says it was not the fault of his mistress, for "was the girl not shapely, did she not make herself lovely" At non formosa est, at non ben culta puella, Marlowe blames his lover for his fault: "Either she was foul, or her attire was bad, / Or she was not the wench I wished t'have had."

The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2010