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One and all affirmed that "swile" meat was a delicacy such as their souls loved -- and repeated questions could elucidate no further.

Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

There is an old story about a foreigner who once asked, "How do you spell 'swile'?"

Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911

Which in a way is a good thing, for a country about ready to swile in the tolit bowl of the times in the middle east.

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Anyways I scared the swile real bad, an 'meself worse.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

One time I shot me brother's gun at a swile, and it liked ter have knocked me jaw awry.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

I suppose, that I should strike a low shelf running off level with t 'water, and by kicking like a swile, I was able to climb up and on to the ballicaters.

Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

He'll be gettin 'you out of your fix easy as a swile [1] slips off a rock.

Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North Dillon Wallace 1901

But there's nothing will master a man's caution like the lust of slaughter: give a Newfoundlander a club, and show un a swile-pack, and he'll venture far from safety.

Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

"Ay," says Peter, "but I wants t 'bludgeon another swile afore I dies."

Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893

"Ah, well," says Peter, "I'll show the lads I'm able t 'haul a swile ashore."

Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893