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  • "Be yow another stinking robber, like this'n?" she demanded.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • "What d'ye want to come back 'ere for, upsettin' Jin like this'n?" he blurted.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • "Yow wunna be wuth hangin 'if y' carry on a this'n."

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • 'More fool yow,' says I; 'it'd' a 'soon gotten cowd weather like this'n.'

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • "She's of'n tuk like this'n," whispered her woman.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • The one was stolidly smoking, the other was holding the battered lantern out at arm's length, and I could, as it were, see him growling to the lout at his side, "'Ew's to fork out for this'n?"

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • This lasted a little while, and then the clerk, unable to bear it, rose up and appealed to the congregation, saying most imploringly, "Them as _can_ sing _do_ ye sing: it's misery to be a this'n" (Shropshire for "in this way").

    The Parish Clerk 1892

  • There be briars and brambles and thorns and sommat of all which do hurt the flesh of man atween that time and this'n.

    Six Plays Florence Henrietta Fisher Darwin 1892

  • Passons niver can answer ye plain, right-down, nataral questions like this'n, and that's why I wunna ga ta tha church.

    Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • "'T ain't so fur going that way as it were this'n," said Philetus.

    Queechy 1854

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