niver

“Delicacy! nonsense, all stuff; a word niver to be found in a sailor’s creed; and so I’ll lave all that to the fops and the women, d’ye see; and now, good bye? but harkee, don’t think too much of that Frederica: By the ghost of my grandfather, things have niver gone right since we went to London.”

The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity 1809

"Hast 'niver' eerd tell on Christ?" the old man asked in measured machine-like tones.

The Heavenly Twins Madame Sarah Grand

As ye know, Sitka Charley, like meself, niver drew first breath in the land; so the sight was new.

The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

Vincent, a word to the wise: ye'll niver lay holy hand or otherwise upon her.

CHAPTER 19 2010

As though ye'd niver had dalin's with the stiff-necked breed, ye calamitous son iv misfortune!

CHAPTER 16 2010

An 'have ye niver drifted along, the water clear as glass, whin suddin, belike a cloud over the sun, the mushy-ice comes bubblin' up an 'up till from bank to bank an' bind to bind it's drapin 'the river like a first snowfall?'

The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

God help us, you an 'me, but we'll niver hit again the pillow as clane an' pure as she!

CHAPTER 19 2010

Bad luck, exciptin 'her, there was niver but one woman I loved, an' that woman had mated beforetime.

CHAPTER 19 2010

But take this to heart, an 'take it well: should ye be mad enough to make her yer wife, iv that damned day ye'll niver see the inding, nor lay eye upon the bridal bed.

CHAPTER 19 2010

"An 'did ye niver hear tell iv the time Dave an' me got drunk on condensed milk?"

CHAPTER 16 2010