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By the way, he had known Wordsworth, and had entertained him at Harrow; and he told us that the Poet always said "housen," where we say houses.

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"housen," for example, and now and then a double plural -- a compromise between the ancient manner and the new -- would creep into their speech;

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To the flint-wielding tribesman, he was the effete and sophisticated embodiment of the end of the old ways, a man who no longer hunted his food with spear and knife, but who spent his nights in housen, and tilled the soil.

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‘To Mary Stile,’ replied the oldest, ‘the widow that rents one of them housen.’

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Towards the euening wee were quartered in the housen, those wherein the Generall was, were by writing freed, that no man might take out any goods, in the rest euery one might go, and take what pillage he could find: but the

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"Ay, mother," said Dirk, "an 'it be time we had new habits to go with the new housen, eh?"

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

An 'the young master be wishin' us to hev cleaner housen an 'slicker, an' I be willin 'to do't ef he wish, now!

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

W'u'd he be doin 'us a bad turn who's mendin' the housen an 'makin' us comf'table?

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

"It be like what it was when I was a gal, an 'all the housen was new," said one old fish-wife, who had tottered in with the others.

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Noll overheard one old fish-wife say, "We ben't slick 'nough for new housen; ther'll hev to be great scrubbin' an 'scourin' that day, eh, Janet?" to her slatternly daughter-in-law; and the boy mentally prayed that this opinion would gain ground among all the fish-folk.

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