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_ -- Aw, I'm glad o't, I'll him auver an zee where I can't help 'em; bit I han't a bin athin tha drashel o 'Maester
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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"Gwain to put my own cheild auver my head and the head of my first-born, is 'ee?" cried Annie.
Secret Bread F. Tennyson Jesse
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-- I tell ye, you must, or I'll rub zum rue auver yer hons: -- what d'ye thenk o't!
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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I zeed Farmer Haggit zoon âter I upt, an a zed, nif a voun one o 'my shee-ape in tha vive-an-twenty yacres, a'd drash I za long as a cood ston auver me, an wi' a groun ash 'too!
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Then cum last summer, and 'twur just the same agen arter his talk, but I got dree months auver that job.
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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"Thaay warrants as wur out agen un, along wi 'the rest as was transpworted auver Farmer Tester's job."
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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When the sun do shine I never think of voul weather, not I; and when it do begin to rain, I always think that's a zure zign it will give auver.
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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To-day none o'we be auver hungry: misfortin be apt to stay the stomach confoundedly --
Speed the Plough A Comedy, In Five Acts; As Performed At The Theatre Royal, Covent Garden Thomas Morton 1801
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'tis niver-the-near ta bear malice; and zaw I'll goo auver an zee which wâ tha wine da blaw.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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“You comed out auver th’moor for ta vine ’Arry Cleave, and naow you’ve vound’n.”
The Moor King, Laurie R. 1998
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