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"ref": "1891, Charles Dudley Warner, Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 4",
"text": "But eesterday he guided slow My downcast Jenny, vull o' woe, An' then my little maid in black, A-walken softly on her track; An' after he'd a-turn'd ageaen, To let me goo along the leaene, He had noo little bwoy to vill His last white eaerms, an' they stood still.",
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"ref": "1898, Eden Phillpotts, Children of the Mist",
"text": "\"Now, you bwoys, give awver runnin' 'bout like rabbits,\" cried out Mr. Chapple.",
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"ref": "1902, M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell), North, South and Over the Sea",
"text": "Lard ha' mercy me, ye could ha' knocked I down wi' a feather when Keeper told I--\" \"A-h-h-h, them bwoys o' Chaffey's has been poachin' again I d' 'low,\" interrupted Mrs. Haskell eagerly. […] And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy, there be a sad surprise in store for you.'",
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"ref": "1903, William Barnes, Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect",
"text": "They went up leaene an hour agoo; An' at the green the young and wold Do stan' so thick as sheep in vwold: The men do laugh, the bwoys do shout,-- Come out you mwopen wench, come out, An' go wi' me, an' show at leaest Bright eyes an' smiles at Woodcom' feaest.",
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"ref": "1994 November 18, Rosalind Cummings, “Hip Hop Godfather”, in Chicago Reader",
"text": "Then comes the Stones' \"Miss You\"; on cue, the crowd yells in unison, \"What's da matter wich you bwoy!\"",
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"text": "Lard ha' mercy me, ye could ha' knocked I down wi' a feather when Keeper told I--\" \"A-h-h-h, them bwoys o' Chaffey's has been poachin' again I d' 'low,\" interrupted Mrs. Haskell eagerly. […] And Susan, she did write back immediate an' say, 'My poor bwoy, there be a sad surprise in store for you.'",
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