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  • Bister Sikes!’ exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; ‘cub id, sir; cub id.’

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • Bister Burds, you bust go to Londod by the next traid.

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • 'Bister Burds, I understood you to -- ah -- say that the scou'drels took their departure without the boy Ford.'

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • 'Bister Burds, what is the expladation of this extraordinary affair?'

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • 'White will accompany you, Bister Burds,' he said doggedly.

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • 'Cub id, Bister Burds,' said my employer, swallowing a lozenge.

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • I bay be wrodging Bister Ford, but do dot thig so. '

    The Little Nugget 1928

  • Leicester, Bicester, Cirencester, Gloucester, and Worcester, while at the same time a marked tendency towards elision occurs; for these words are really pronounced as if written Lester, Bister, Cisseter, Gloster, and Wooster.

    Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873

  • BICESTER, commonly pronounced Bister, is thirteen miles by the road from

    Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

  • 'Bister Sikes!' exclaimed Barney, with real or counterfeit joy; 'cub id, sir; cub id.'

    Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

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