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  • To all who are challenging Beth to beat them at resting and Beth too: ye'er all pikers.

    Beth does not die: the Good News and Bad News of the Trip Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • I have sat at the fireside and heard the mother relate the story of a murder and turn to her eldest boy and say, 'Mind ye, if ever ye meet up with him, you'll not forget to do what ye'er mammy learned ye to do.'

    The American Missionary β€” Volume 50, No. 3, March, 1896 Various

  • 'Ye took wan in an' warmed it, 'he says,' an 'it has growed an' multiplied till ye'er system does be full iv thim, 'he says,' millions iv thim, 'he says,' ma-archin 'an' counthermarchin 'through ye.'

    Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

  • As Mr. Dooley says: β€œIt's a good thing, sometimes, to have people size ye up wrong, Hinnessey: it's whin they've got ye'er measure ye're in danger.”

    A Dutch Boy Fifty Years After Bok, Edward 1921

  • "An 'if Misther Robert don't pay ye ye'er price, ye'll sell 'em ter th' other feller who says his wife ain't his wife?"

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

  • I know it's th 'great man ye are, but ye wuddent queer ye'er fa-ather by comin' ter th 'front dure, wud ye?

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

  • "Furrin fiddlesticks -- I'll lave th 'whole mess f'r ye'er mother ter see when she gits home, d'ye mind."

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

  • "Who's dead, Jimmie?" he asked, with real concern "-- why do ye wear th 'sorry rag on ye'er hat an' th 'ravens on ye'er hands?"

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

  • "I did box ye'er ears good, didn't I, sor? but go along wid yer, th 'trouble ye made me, ye an' Miss Alice a-traipsin 'over me flower-beds."

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

  • It's ye'er fa-ather talkin 'ter ye now, James Riley, an' it's ye'er fa-ather who's goin 'ter scrape off some iv thim fine airs thim Tammany thieves an' blacklegs has learned ye.

    The Lever A Novel William Dana Orcutt 1911

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