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Examples
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'You are too emotional, tear poy,' he said; 'you are too easily vorked upon.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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"Sure, I know," said Stankewitz, "I vorked in both them cities, and I vas every bit so hungry under Rothschild as I vas under the Kaiser."
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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Perhaps you vill give me someting to eat den -- I haf had noffing since yesterday morning, und I haf vorked myself near to death here.
The Jungle 1906
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You are all vorked up -- vat you call it -- flabbergasted.
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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Phony newsreels were produced for the cinema, with "swarthy indigents from Eastern Europe endorsing Sinclair-'Vell his system vorked vell in Russia, vy can't it verk here?"
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a vacancy, Kaufmann had always been ready with his "practical man dot has vorked hiss vay."
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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"Dear Sir -- Dis is to testify dot Hans Snyder vorked for me von week.
More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher
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You vorked for de money every time -- aind't idt? "
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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"My vriends, for vifteen years I vorked at making brooms -- me und my vife -- from fife in the morning until six at night, und I loose mine fingern trying to save enough money to puy a house that we could call our own.
True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910
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Dis gase, vile supliminally great stuff, is pretty vell vorked out: not? "
Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893
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