belaved

"Shure Oi wouldn't have belaved av Oi hadn't seen it," remarked

The Boy Scouts Patrol Ralph Victor

Would anybody have belaved it when we come with nothin 'to the shanty?

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

"They did be thinkin 'we was sint afther thim, so I belaved," Jimmie observed.

Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel

"I saw them fight, and I heard Jimmy till Dannie that he'd lied to him to separate us, but he turned right around and took it back and I knew Dannie belaved him thin; but he can't after Jimmy confissed it again to both of you."

At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

Don't disappoint me, Ned, for the ould man has belaved in ye -- more than ye've belaved in yersilf.

The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

The next time Tom went he found the door locked, and, after hammering a half-hour, and being towld there was no admittance, he belaved it was meant as a kind hint that his company was not agreeable.

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

But they all belaved it, bekase widdys judge iverybody be themselves, so they were mighty mad.

Irish Wonders 1878

When Tom came out one day looking bright and cheery, iverybody belaved they had been conspiring togither, and had hit on some thavish trick they was to play on little Kitty McGuire.

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

Still there remained a feeling that, as long as they continued a united party, the spirit of the agreement should not be broken; therefore the skipper and "Shames" let the bottle pass with a sigh, and Quin followed suit with an undertoned remark to Tips that, "he wouldn't have belaved tim'tation to be so strong av he hadn't wrastled wid it!"

The Eagle Cliff 1859

"I belaved that you were all murthered by the Injins months ago, and niver expected to see your faces again."

Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory William Henry Giles Kingston 1847