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  • "You ca'ant curse waun that do love everybody, and whose heart es full ov love."

    Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898

  • I've got a brother as do live there, the waun younger'n me.

    Roger Trewinion Joseph Hocking 1898

  • _ Yes, he art to ha 'pricked moor to waun side of' un.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, November 19, 1892 Various 1876

  • "May it be lang afore ye're in a waun an 'a warmer place, my lord an' my lady," said the old woman, with the greatest politeness of manner she knew how to assume.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • When the girls of the neighboring lodges assembled to play at the favorite female game of pappus-e-ko-waun, or the block and string, before the lodge-door, Leelinau would sit vacantly by, or enter so feebly into the spirit of the play as to show that it was irksome to her.

    The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends Cornelius Mathews 1853

  • Dis hyar boy, han'sum an 'smart, bergin to git tired uv de fawm -- he heer'd de boys frum de city tellin' erbout de great doin's down dar, en de mo 'he look eroun' de mo 'de ole place los' hit's chawm, en fine'ly he goes to hi 'daddy en says, says he,' Pap, I dun git to de age when I waun 'see sum uv de wurl, en' ef yo 'gwine do ennything fo' me, do hit now. '

    Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905

  • "I do'ant bleeve in makin 'fish o' waun and flesh of t'other.

    The Birthright Joseph Hocking 1898

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