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Owd Jerry had threaped shameful the day afore; the weather had been that bad he'd not been able to go down to 'The Craven Heifer.'
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He fratched and threaped same as usual if owt went wrang wi 'his meals, or if the childer made ower mich racket i' the house, but it took a vast o 'care off my mind to think that he could get about and go down to' The Craven Heifer 'for his forenoon drinkings, same as he'd allus done sin first I came into Wharfedale as Mike's bride.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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They had been in London, and many other grand towns; but they always said there was no place like home; and then they were so agreeable with each other -- never fell out nor "threaped."
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It should not have talked when I desired quietness, nor have threaped [scolded] at me when I did aught pleased it not. "
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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