beginned

Anyhow, the two beginned jawin 'together, soon got thick as Todgy an' Tom.

Drolls From Shadowland

Then, arter a bit, they done the threshin 'an' was kickin 'the short straw out the grain, which riz a gert dust; an' the piskeys all beginned sneezin '.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

And then beginned his funny courting -- if you can call it courting, where

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

"Well, sur, after you left all of a hurry like, we had a big party in the house, and all the servants 'ad to' elp; and no sooner did I git in that 'ere house than I beginned to put two and two together, and then I see a hindiwidual that I beginned to think wur mighty like that' ere ghost."

Weapons of Mystery Joseph Hocking 1898

"Don't try to break them, Thor, pelease," she said; "for if you beginned breaking it might go on, and then it would be all spoilt like the last time, for there's no fun in soap-bubbling by turns."

Little Miss Peggy: Only a Nursery Story 1887

"Which beginned first – rivers or rain?" said Carrots, meditatively, "that would tell,"

"Carrots": Just a Little Boy 1882

Well, whin Nell an 'Andy seen he was getting vexed, they beginned to bawl out their prayers, with the fright, as if the life was lavin' them; an 'the more he bate the door, the louder they prayed, until at last Jim was fairly tired out.

The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

` Well, whin his Raverince kem down, they up an 'they tould him all that happened, an' how they put the gandher into the hamper, an 'how he beginned to spake, an' how he confissed that he was ould Terence Mooney; an 'they axed his honour to advise them how to get rid iv the spirit for good an' all.

The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

Well, your honour, the evenin 'Jim Soolivan wint away, whin the dark was closin' in, Nell Gorman, his wife, beginned to get mighty anasy in herself whin she didn't see him comin 'back at all; an' she was gettin 'more an' more frightful in herself every minute till the dark kem an, an 'divil a taste iv her husband was coming at all at all.

The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880

` An 'his Raverince rode down to the bank of the river, close by, an' beginned to read mighty loud and bould intirely.

The Purcell Papers, Volume III 1880