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I have to lafe at the qualified with nothing more than a white face telling Taiwanese they need native-speaker pronunciation, bit.

tongyong pinyin haters: you are all colonialist shits Michael Turton 2006

I never took thocht; but when Bawbie fell seek, an 'groo as white's a penny lafe, thinks I to mysel', "That's your dottle, Sandy Bowden!"

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"You can wadger your henmist bodle on that," says Sandy, as he took a rive ooten a penny lafe.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

I could not choke the life from something that had no lafe.

Lost on Venus Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950 1935

Luk, ain't that lafe the livin 'shape of a shtummick?

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

I'd lafe a heap o 'times if she wasn't so all-fired serious over it.

Dixie Hart 1888

But as for the coffin, I'll give you me word if it didn't take and set off wid itself floatin 'away bobbin' along atop of the wather as light now, as if it was a lafe dhropped down from the boughs archin 'over our heads -- and wasn't that cur'ous enough?

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

"Mr. Trimble," said he, "Art Maguire wants a plain substantial suit o 'clothes, that will be chape an' wear well, an 'I'll be accountable for them; Art, sir, has taken the pledge, an' is goin 'to turn over a new lafe, an' be as he wanst was, I hope."

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

It has a lafe harbour, capable of containing a nu - mtu'ous fleet of men of v/ar i from its advantageous lituation, and the fertili - ty of the back country, it promil'es to be one of the Ailt trading towns in Georgia.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

Deviations from the law muft be uniformly punilhed, or no man can be certain when he Ihall be lafe.

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... 1791