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Examples
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Wint could on her heart as the night wind in winther.
The Purcell Papers 2003
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"If that's the way," said the ostler, "ye mightn't get her again before the winther."
All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches Martin Ross 1903
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They was wan down at th 'brothers' school las 'winther.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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Divvle's Own Island, they'd have to build an intinsion to that far-famed winther resort.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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A pollytician who's on'y honest is jus 'th' same as bein 'out in a winther storm without anny clothes on.
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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And in winther the snow s the great ghost of a world settled down on the land,
A Curlew's Call 1895
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Wint could on her heart as the night wind in winther.
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There 's been great deaths after the winther among the old folks.
The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett 1879
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"Ye'd betther do it, that's betther nor thinkin '," he retorted; "or ilse ye'll be catching a cowld an 'gittin' them nasty screwmatics as makes me howl av a winther sometimes."
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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He's not the boy to rattle a poor divil out of the kitchen into the cold winther night!
The Kellys and the O'Kellys Anthony Trollope 1848
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