pear'd

Updated: May 21, 2025

Then it 'pear'd, Tommy, thet it was this woman's drunken husband they was going to put out for abusin' her, and strikin' her in the coach; and if it hadn't been for me, my boy, they'd hev left that chap thar in the road. But I fixes matters up by putting her alongside o' me on the box, and we drove on.

Bret Harte - Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories