twan

"They was some firin" from a little battery up on Copp's Hill, and one or two of the other ships, they let off a pop or two, but they could see 'twan't no earthly use and ceased.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

I thought 'twan't all wool myself, an' I know it now by the way she looked.

The Passing of Sister Barsett 1996

I'd hev ye t'-night if 'twan't fer jest one cussed thing.

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

I didn't like ter stay up there alone, but when I found I got ter, I set down on the mat an '' twan't long before I'd learnt half of 'em.

Randy and Her Friends Amy Brooks

Chan to fight a duil, an 'Marse Chan he excepted de challenge, an' dey wuz gwine fight; but some on 'em tole 'im Marse Chan wan' gwine mek a present o 'him to his fam'ly, an' he got somebody to bre'k up de duil; 'twan' nuthin 'dough, but he wuz' fred to fight

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Well, sir, I never went again: the words hurt like the cut of a whip, though 'twan't George that spoke them.

Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 Various

I screamed, of course, but 'twan't no use, then I worked that hull long night

Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

Maybe 'twan't jest a nice way, but I had to find out.

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

"Ah, well, 'twan't to be," he said, with an accent of weary finality; but then, suddenly out of the chill which oppressed his heart there sprang a last searing blast of astonished anguish.

Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

Then Duncan wanted to git out again, but 'twan't exactly convenient.

Coniston — Volume 02 Winston Churchill 1909