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Long and carefully the Irishman looked about him and then, turning suddenly upon the still silent driver, he gazed at him for a full minute before saying, with elaborate mock formality: "It may be, Sorr, that bein 'ye are sich a hell av a conversationalist, ut wouldn't tax yer vocal powers beyand their shtrength av I should be so baould as to ax ye fwhat the divil place is this?"
The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908
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At the end of the village "she begun to scraich, yer Anner, wid that shtrength you’d think she’d shplit her troat."
Irish Wonders 1878
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