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Examples
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"Whativver made yo 'bring stickin' plaister, mother, yo 'sewerly didn't think ther'd been ony feightin'?"
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"Why, tha sewerly doesn't meean to bury me in a silk hat?"
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Yo dooan't meean to say shoo's yor neese sewerly."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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"Happen soa; -- but tha sees shoo hasn't a lot o 'father's, -- shoo's nobbut getten me, -- but if buyin her a bit ov a bonnet will set matters straight aw could sewerly manage that."
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Awm hauf starved stiff wi caarin here, but aw should think they'll nooan be long nah, for they sewerly dooant mean to stop thear singin all th 'neet. "
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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What a wonderful head you've got for arguing, sewerly! "
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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