thruff

Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones -- "thruff-steans" or "through-stones," as they call them in the Whitby vernacular -- actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.

Dracula 1897

Done it ta-year I meän’d, an’ runn’d plow thruff it an’ all,

Northern Farmer 1895

Done it ta-year I meän'd, an 'runn'd plow thruff it an' all,

Enoch Arden & c. 1863

Well, I runned arter thief i 'the dark, and fell ageän coalscuttle and my kneeä gev waäy or I'd ha' cotched 'im, but afoor I coomed up he got thruff the winder ageän.

Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

I'd like to drag 'im thruff the herse-pond, and she to be a-lookin' at it.

Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

Here, we'll tak 'yon last one up first, and come back along here and tak' up the big one, and go thruff yon reed-bed home. "

Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp George Manville Fenn 1870