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"Now, cap," continued the trapper, "I've gi'n ye my notion o 'things, if so be we're boun' to fight; but I have my behopes we kin get back the weemen 'ithout wastin' our gun-fodder."
The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850
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He's throwed over the chest in the behopes it might help float us.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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It did do some good, for she swum higher; but we got mighty slow through the water, an 'I hed but leetle behopes we should reach land.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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So I laid still, in behopes to git a wheen more o 'them.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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“I’m in behopes of living to see myself pensioned, too.”
The Rising of the Moon Mitchell, Gladys 1945
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(pl. noun) - (1) Hope, expectation. Ireland, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
(2) In good behopes, hopeful.
--Georgina Jackson's Shropshire Word-Book, 1879
January 14, 2018