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- verb Yorkshire To be
able tojustify theexpense of a purchase.
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Examples
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I ask a local “Cá áit a stadann bus McGinley ó Baile Átha Cliath le do thoil?”
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It isn't often at ther's soa mich brass faand inside a Clock Almanack, but ther's monny an monny a paands worth ov innocent amusement to be faand in its pages, an they're odd kind o 'fowk at connot thoil to spend
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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And when the time of her deliuery should come to make her thoil great doloures, like vnto that naturall course, and then subtillie to slippe in the Mid-wiues handes, stockes, stones, or some monstruous barne brought from some other place, but this is more reported and gessed at by others, nor beleeued by me.
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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S hend» hends four parilfhest containing four thoil - 'iand eight hundred and eighty - fix fouls, and fupports ten. convents.
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'S è 'n ceathramh crioch mhòr, Daoin' oibreacha fuas chum ùmhìachd thaingeil fhoighidneach do dh* uile thoil a Mhaighfiir.
Coir mhor a Chriosduidh: ann da earrain. : I. D'fheuchainn mu choir shlainteil ann Criosd. II. An doigh chum ruigheachd air. MacFarlane, Patrick, 1753-1832 1783
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Thik is for thorn that’s thuck in its thoil like thum-fool’s thraitor thrust for vengeance.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Deda m� t� s� seo � l�amh agat an gcuirfidh r-phost chugam led’ thoil?
One of these days… 2004
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She had dropped on her knees beside me, busy with pins and folds, and Joy was lisping the caution, born perhaps of experience, "Don't you thoil it,
The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark
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"Onnybody'd think to listen to thi at tha didn't thoil it.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Bhur Niomcb - nuth&, X Cor.p. x. tlomthomeadh, Aums PL V. Icm - totniodh. flomtfaoitain, A thoil fern} Fb - iuntary*
Archaeologia Britannica,: Giving Some Account Additional to what Has Been ... 1707
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