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"Durin 'der lives," repeated Phats, who had evidently been pondering over Hycy's promised gift to the Hogans; -- "throth," he observed with
The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"O, throth, I couldn't forget a gintleman so aisy as that," said Barny.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"Thrue for you, in throth," said Barny, with a shrug of his shoulders.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"To be sure we have; throth if we hadn't, this id be a bad place to go a beggin '."
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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Listen to me now, honey; here it is, on my knees I am before you, and throth it's not more nor three, may be four, young women I'd say the like to; bad scran to me if I wouldn't marry you out of a face this blessed morning just as soon as I'd look at ye.
Charles O'Malley — Volume 2 Charles James Lever 1839
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"'T was a horse's head, in throth, with an owld hat on the top of it, and two buck-briars stuck out at each side, and some rags hanging on them, and an owld breeches shakin 'undher the head; 't was just altogether like a long pale-faced man, with high shouldhers and no body, and very long arms and short legs: -- faith, it frightened me at first."
Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Samuel Lover 1832
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"They're miserable times, Molly, at least I find them so; for I dunna how it happens, but every one's disappointment falls upon me, till they have me a'most out of house an 'home -- throth it' ud be no wondher I'd get hard-hearted some day wid the way I'm thrated an 'robbed by every one; aye, indeed, bekase I'm good-natured, they play upon me."
The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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If I had killed her now, throth it 'ud be a good joke, an' all in a fit of passion, bekase she didn't come home in time to let me meet him.
The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Ay, laugh and blush -- do -- throth, 'twas I that caught you, but you didn't see me, though.
The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"Long life to you, Donnel; throth an 'I want to go, if it was only to set the little matthers right for them poor orphans, my grandchildre."
The Black Prophet: A Tale Of Irish Famine Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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