w'y

"'Ow dirty I am, bein' around the w'y I 'ave," the woman said, as she sat down in a coffee-house, wiping the sleep and grime from the corners of her eyes.

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"The w'y 'e coughs is somethin' terrible," volunteered my sweated friend, referring to the dying boy.

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An '' e likes the 'ouse;' e says as it's the best 'e can do in the w'y of lodgin's.

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"I s 'bide wi' 'im till I see' im oot o 'this, ae w'y or ither,", added Malcolm, and sat down by the bedside of his poor distrustful friend.

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"There's some w'y o 'makin' ae body guairdian till anither, sae 'at the law' ll uphaud him -- isna there, my lord?"

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An 'ef eny ask who owns her, w'y, I ain't ashamed to tell --

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Ef he thinks of me as he said he did the last time we had speech together -- w'y, I never want to put eyes on his face again.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

"W'y," he answered, "w'y, I just 'membered what you said to Mabel that everybody has two kinds o' thoughts, and one kind _thinks_ you're sick, and the other kind _knows_ you're well, so I thinked about Jamie till I thinked the _know_ thoughts, and _course_ he got well then."

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You go on -- you don't green _me_ that w'y -- a statute!

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"What w'y are ye the day, my lord?" asked Malcolm.

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