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"Tho gin you, fond flies, the cold to scorn, And, crowing in pipes made of green corn, You thinken to be lords of the year; But eft when ye count you freed from fear, Comes the breme winter with chamfred brows, Full of wrinkles and frosty furrows." LII.: and when there is no such chance, I shall use the word chamfer only.

'I thout he was a thinken of the white cow as choked 'erself with the tunnup that was skipped in the chopping, said the boy, as he spoke of his master afterwards to the old groom. At last, however, a thought seemed to strike Belton. 'Do you get on Brag, he said to the boy, 'and ride off to Goldingham Corner, and tell Daniel to bring the horse home again. I shan't hunt today.

The footlight effect softened her prominently-boned face and struck some of the over-strong colour from her cheeks she showed a faint hint of the prettiness that had attracted the old Squire. "An' who is it you'm thinken' will be at the door for 'ee to kiss when you get in wi' the Neck?" she asked grimly. Archelaus shuffled from one big foot to the other.

The two grinders stood and regarded Cytherea as if she had been a ship tacking into a harbour, nearly stopping the mill in their new interest. 'Stylish accoutrements about the head and shoulders, to my thinken, said the clerk. 'Sheenen curls, and plenty o' em. 'If there's one kind of pride more excusable than another in a young woman, 'tis being proud of her hair, said Mr. Springrove.

'Well, said she, 'yo' see, they thinken a deal o' money here and I reckon yo've not getten much. 'No, said Margaret, 'that's very true. But we are educated people, and have lived amongst educated people. Is there anything so wonderful, in our being asked out to dinner by a man who owns himself inferior to my father by coming to him to be instructed? I don't mean to blame Mr. Thornton.

"She'm a rare one for gossip, she is." Then, as he pretended to busy himself with something at the horse's head, he spoke again. "Ishmael," he began, "I knaw how it is wi' you. You think on when my fancy was took by your lil' missus, and you don't knaw how I'm thinken about things.

Kink opened his mouth to speak, but words failed him and his mouth remained open while he continued to gaze at his partner. "Just what I was thinken', Kink," said Bill. They grinned sheepishly at each other, and by tacit consent started to walk away. Their pace quickened, and by the time they arrived at their cabin they were on the run.

The Scotch dragoon, Mackenzie, seeing me look long and intently at the distant Falls of Montmorency, drily observed, "It may be a' vera fine; but it looks na' better to my thinken than hanks o' white woo' hung out o're the bushes." "Weel," cried another, "thae fa's are just bonnie; 'tis a braw land, nae doubt; but no' just so braw as auld Scotland."

Even such archaisms as 'deemen' and 'thinken, such colloquialisms as the pronominal possessive, need not be too severely criticized.

"We told them to keep back at home for a time, thinken they wouldn't be wanted yet awhile; and we could choose the tuens, and so on." "Father and grandfather William have expected ye a little sooner. I have just been for a run round by Ewelease Stile and Hollow Hill to warm my feet." "To be sure father did!