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Examples
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Oh, she was a good and tender mother to me, ladies, avourneen.
Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale
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"'But your faith,' says I, '' avourneen, your holy faith, surely you will not be forsaking that for this boy! '"
The Wind Bloweth Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne 1908
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I am gathering them to give to the birds, avourneen.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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Don't be crying, avourneen; I will teach the poem to you; I know it myself.
Poets and Dreamers Studies and translations from the Irish Lady Gregory 1892
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And, God bless you, avourneen, Mick got a fine job after on the railroad. '
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Another day, when she was trying to flatter me, she said: 'Ah, God bless you, avourneen, you've no pride.
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Ah, avourneen, the poor do have great stratagems to keep in their little cabins at all.
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'God Almighty forgive me, avourneen,' she went on, when I had finished, 'we don't know anything about it.
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"Don't cry, gran'daddy -- I love you wid all my heart, _avourneen_."
Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children Grace Greenwood 1863
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Musha, God help you! sure it's not much you or the likes of you can have in your cuff, avourneen!
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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