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Dunnot say a word abaat me havin come raand, an 'when th' doctor comes aw'll put him up to a thing. '
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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They wor wed at Midsummer, an Sydney kept his word abaat smookin -- he started chewin, an suckin owd empty pipes, but it worn't like smookin, an whenivver he smelt th 'reek ov a cigar it fair set him longin, but like a man owt to do, he didn't braik his promise.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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He spends th 'mooast ov his time up at Joa's, but he's niver had a pooaker in his hand sin that neet, an' if yo want to see him mad, just say a word abaat hangin.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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'Hooisht! lass, thaa mornd try to speerit through th' clouds that are raand abaat His throne.
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Th 'owd Book yo' quote fro 'says summat abaat a man stonnin' and falling to his own
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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It's to us and to aar childer, for all thi mother hes said so mich abaat it. '
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Christ an 'axed Him if mony or few wur saved; and all he geet for an answer wur, "Thee mind and geet saved thisel'; it'll tak 'thee all thy time wi'out botherin' abaat others. "
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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But that's abaat as mich on Him as yo 'want, I think.'
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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When yo 'cornd yer owt good abaat a mon yo'd better yer naught at all.'
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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Naa, Mr. Penrose, yo 'preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o 'reet that yo' should; but yo 'cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo ', when it's bin my salvation?
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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