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"'Tis a long story, but 'tothers' ave 'eard it, an' likely they'll figger it oughta be me 'as tells ye."
Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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"'Tis a long story, but 'tothers' ave 'eard it, an' likely they'll figger it oughta be me 'as tells ye."
Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
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Like his early poem which begins, "No hailing curry favouring tothers/Muses gins by story" (Early Poems 1.15), Clare's botanical names and figures carve a space for Clare (and for the local and the particular) inside Romanticism, with its vaunted preference for the grand scheme, sublime idea, and the monumental.
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It used to be warm wark boath for him at wor wheelin 'an' for tothers, but they wor all on 'em bent o 'bein' porters, soa they tew'd at it, detarmined to maister all th 'ins an' aghts abaat it.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"P'r'aps tothers is there, too," said Jem eagerly.
The Adventures of Don Lavington Nolens Volens George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Well, I'll tell you what," said Bob, "we'll put the six biggest eels and the trout into a basket, and you shall take 'em home -- young jack and all; and them tothers I shall send up into the village to sell."
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870
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Rackon there wor dree score on 'em, tak smarl and beg togather laike; latt aloun the women and chillers; zum on em wi 'matches blowing, tothers wi' flint-lacks.
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I gits leave go ashore wi 'tothers, runs right away to our Dey, who gits awrful waxy, sends for Breetish cap'n,' splain that I's the son of
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"Madam, I reckon dar's heap o 'tothers in dis town, ain't fixed for takin'in sich a poo' naked cretur 'as he wus."
Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston 1853
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I guess its worth ary half dozen in these parts, let tothers be where they may.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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