wark's

I hit Sandy blether awa 'for a whilie, an' syne I strikes in, "Ay, juist that, Sandy; but you'll mibby g'wa 'an' get that tume saft soap barrel scraipit oot, an 'the wechts gi'en a black lead; an' we'll hear aboot the Toon Cooncil efter your wark's dune."

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

'Ay, ay,' returned my uncle, 'wark's aye best in an evil day.'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

"Hi, -- aw allus coom straight hooam when mi wark's done."

Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877

"An 'my father says," resumed Elsie, addressing Agnes, "yer wark's no worth yer wages."

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

He kens my wark's worth my wages whatever he likes to set me til.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

"That shall they never, I trow," echoed Mause; "castaways are they ilk ane o 'them -- besoms of destruction, fit only to be flung into the fire when they have sweepit the filth out o' the Temple -- whips of small cords, knotted for the chastisement of those wha like their warldly gudes and gear better than the Cross or the Covenant, but when that wark's done, only meet to mak latchets to the deil's brogues."

Old Mortality, Volume 1. Walter Scott 1801

"That shall they never, I trow," echoed Mause; "castaways are they ilk ane o 'them -- besoms of destruction, fit only to be flung into the fire when they have sweepit the filth out o' the Temple -- whips of small cords, knotted for the chastisement of those wha like their warldly gudes and gear better than the Cross or the Covenant, but when that wark's done, only meet to mak latchets to the deil's brogues."

Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

"Nah Simon, tha sees what a mess thy stupid wark's getten us into.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877