b'fore

Lets all go to Flanders field pick out a poppy and start to peel if you do not like it we can move to another tomb dig up a soldier, start to march we best be heading home b'fore our mouths get parch'd

dig-vorvy Diary Entry dig-vorvy 2004

"That's yer tithe-ye gotta pay tithe an 'tax on what ye made, b'fore I took my share."

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

Is this a ray gun that I see b'fore me, the handle toward muh hand?

Hokas Pokas Anderson, Poul 1983

The man said, 'Yes, he's goiner leave in the morning b'fore times.'

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Times not good as it always have been b'fore that last war (World War).

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 6 Work Projects Administration

The master died b'fore the cholera disease come on.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

I heard the master and overseers whooping the slaves b'fore day.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

I'll stand by you, sir -- though I never spoke t 'you b'fore in my life.

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870 Various

And he hid 'em all b'fore we ever suspected he had money.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

Beg pawdon, dear boy, f'not 'bsherving you b'fore. Mos' happy to renew zhe 'quaintance so auspishously begun' saffer-noon.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg