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"The blessed virgin guide and prothect me," said Anty, "for I want her guidance this minute. Oh, that the walls of a convent was round me this minute I wouldn't know what throuble was!" "And you needn't know anything about throuble," said Martin, who didn't quite like his mistress's allusion to a convent. "You don't suppose there's a word of thruth in all this long story of Mr Daly's?
There was something so mysterious in that sudden exit that we just looked at our guest without understanding a word he said. Jamie opened up another line of inquiry. "Th' say yer a terrible liar, Hughie." "I am that," Hughie said without the slightest hesitation. "I'm th' champ'yun liar ov County Anthrim." "How did ye get th' belt?" "Aisy, as aisy as tellin' th' thruth."
For av you weren't the masther, Sir Herbert, as you are, the Lord presarve you to us, divil a masther'd iver be able to hould a foot in Castle Richmond, and that's God's ouwn thruth." "And that's thrue for you, Richard," said another, whom Herbert in the confusion could not recognize, though his voice was familiar to him. "'Deed and the boys had it all made out.
The speakers hurled at the Gazette the pet terms they usually and properly reserve for each other. The too flattering terms which in a moment of weakness I applied to Tuam and its people are described as "lying, hellish, mendacious misrepresentations." Misther MacCormack said the English people would know there was "not a wurrud of thruth in these miserable lies."
"Well, but Fardorougha acushla, now hear me, throth it's thruth and sinse what you say; but still, avourneen, listen; now set in case that the Bodagh and his wife don't consint to their marriage, or to do anything for them, won't you take them a farm and stock it bravely? Think of poor Connor, the darlin' fine fellow that he is.
'Fadther, says he to me today, 'why couldn't ye wait an' bring me into the wurruld on American soil, says he 'and maybe I'd been prisident, says he, and 't was the thruth for him." "I'd rather for him to be a priest meself," replied the mother. "That's what Father Miles said himself the other day," announced Mike wide awake now. "'I wish he'd the makings of a good priest, said he.
Carson, by either adding to, or taking away from it, more or less than the truth. I say this to you, and to all present; for, upon my honor, I shall dismiss the first case in which I discover a falsehood." "Wid the help o' the Almighty, sir, I'll state nothing but the bare thruth." "How long are you off my estate?" "Ten years, your honor, or a little more."
It is ended by the word bit, and merely results from a habit of swearing where there is no malignity of purpose. An Irishman, when corroborating an assertion, however true or false, will often say, "Bad luck to the bit but it is;" "Divil fire the bit but it's thruth!" "Damn the bit but it is!" and so on.
"Did yez hear that?" said Dalton; "ha, ha, ha an' it's all thrue; she has tould me nothing but the thruth here, then, take the ould vagabond away with you, and do what you like with him " "'I am a bold and rambling boy, My lodging's in the isle of Throy; A rambling boy, although I be, I'd lave them all an' folly thee.
It's very well known the matches I might a got; but you see, you little shaver, it was waitin' for yourself I was." "For me! A purty story indeed I'm sure it was! Oh, afther that! Why, Phelim, how can you Well, well, did any one ever hear the likes?" "Be the vestments, it's thruth.
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