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Updated: June 6, 2025

Her husband then came in the night with a cart, and broke into the house to steal the coffin away; but he was catched, and being obstinate, wouldn't tell what he broke in for. They brought it in burglary, and that's why he was hanged and gibbeted on Brown House Hill. His wife went mad after he was dead. But it medn't be true that he belonged to ye more than to me."

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Mebbe if you was to vollow by river-bank you med come up wi' him by-an'-by ... and mebbe, agin, you medn't." "I'll follow him," Guy exclaimed, growing more excited than ever, now this quarry was almost well within sight; "I'll follow him till I find him, the confounded rascal. I'll follow him to his grave. He shan't get away from me." The landlord looked at him with a dubious frown.

Grant Allen - What's Bred in the Bone