"Wi" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I'm not able now to read and write. None of us is, for us had no teachers. But we was all big, strong men, and handy at that, and there wasn't a thing to be done wi' axe or saw about boats and timber us couldn't do. We made a good deal at furring, too, and many's and many's t' night in winter I've laid down under t' trees and slept—with ne'er a greatcoat neither. An' if us wasn't brought up scholars, Father taught us to be honest, and to fear ...
— Labrador Days - Tales of the Sea Toilers • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
... summon 'ull come ater meae mayhap wi' 'is kittle o' steaem Huzzin' an' maaezin' the blessed feaelds wi' the ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory
... only (relatively) sober member of the party, of another mon—a hartist—who, aboon thirty year sin', built a hut at Widdup, and hed a gurt big dog, and young Helliwell, ower at Jerusalem, wor then a lad, and used to bring him (the mon) milk, and in the end gat ta'en on as sarvant, and went wi' him to Scotland and all ower—you may imagine ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... planket roond an' roond her potty, an' tied it wi' a bit o' line to keep it oop, an' she's waarm as waarm a' but her ...
— Steve Young • George Manville Fenn
... da flower, not dese tings—I hata dem." She gave the flowers in front of her a push. "I hata dem! I wanta see da rosa on da bush, I wanta see da leaves on da tree. I wanta put ma face in da grass lak when I young girl in Capri. I wanta look at da sky, I wanta smell da field. I wanta lie at night wi ma bambini and hear da rain. I no can wait one year, I wanta ...
— Drusilla with a Million • Elizabeth Cooper
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