"Wern" Quotes from Famous Books
... a wheel. It were afore wheels were boxed up. It were just when she were to have been married, and many a one thought George would ha' been off his bargain; but I knew he wern't the chap for that trick. Pretty near the first place she went to when she were able to go about again, was th' Oud Church; poor wench, all pale and limping, she went up the aisle, George holding her up as tender as a mother, and walking as slow as e'er he could, ... — Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell
... the Rev. A. Hannay. Germs of Thought: Christianity and Pharisaism; The Perfection of Humanity; The Moral Mirror of the Good. The Religion of Semblance. and the Religion of Substance; Glances at Great Preachers; Williams of Wern. ... — Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 • Various |