deead

It was abaat th 'deead hour, and I wakened up sudden-like, for summat towd me all were not reet wi' th 'lad.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Surely th' old lass isn't deead! 'he cried in startled tones.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

But it'll be a deead face hoo'll carry in her een naa, I'll be bun for't. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Nay, thaa's bin deead long enugh a'ready; it's time thaa begun to live, and thank God thaa's come back to live at wom '.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Let's pool up th 'settle to th' fire; he's one on us, though he's deead. '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Th 'owd Book says as th' deead is to bury th 'deead, but I'm noan deead yet.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Owd Mr. Morell used to say as he could awlus see her deead husband's face i' hers until th 'child wur born, and then it left her, and hoo carried th' face o 'th' little un hoo brought up.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

'Aw've gin thee a bad name, owd mon, and they'n tried to hang thee for't; but thaa'll happen do summat some day as they'll tee a medal raand thi neck for, and when thaa'rt deead build thee a moniment.'

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'Aw say, Gronny, Jesus made deead fo'k yer Him when He spok', didn't He? '

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

I make nowt o 'poor folk apein' th 'quality, and when they're deead and all.

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