w'ere

Like the other tourists wandering awed among the huge standing stones, we had gaped at the Altar Stone ( 'w'ere ancient Druid priests performed their dreadful' uman sacrifices, 'announced the sonorous Cockney tour guide accompanying a busload of Italian tourists, who all dutifully took photographs of the rather ordinary-looking stone block).

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

Her cheeks w'ere like roses, so sweet was the dimple

The Rose of Glenshee 1996

It's got a suller, an 'a down sta'rs, an' a up sta'rs, an 'dar ain't no winders; it's all like a mill w'ere dey grin' sugar cane an 'pick cotton.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

It's a big jail -- bigger'n dis plantation -- w'ere dey puts de blacks w'at don't 'bey orders.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

"- Ride w'ere strides a rattle o 'rocks,/Thunder' e sun down t 'dance on your lance -" What he could follow raised gooseflesh on him.

There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

Dere wus a collud church fifteen miles frum Mt. Pleasant w'ere we went to service.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

W'en slaves run away an 'their masters catch them, to the stockade they go w'ere they'd be whipp' every other week for a number of mornins. An 'de for God sake don' you be cotch with pencil an 'paper, dat was a major crime.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

One of his master 'friend gone to New York en went in a store w'ere Pas wus employed as a clerk.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

Four men an 'me dig his grave an' I clear 'the spot w'ere his monument now stan'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

No train or trolly tracks was there then 'cause there was only one railroad here, the Southern, an 'the depot was on Ann Street w'ere the

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration