riv'rince

Updated: May 15, 2025

Ashamed I was, Pierre, that Father Corraine should spake to me like that, for I'd only a twig twisted at me hips to kape me trousies up, an' I thought 'twas that he had in his eye! 'Buckle to, says I, 'Father Corraine? Buckle to, yer riv'rince? feelin' I was at the twigs the while.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People", v1

Ashamed I was, Pierre, that Father Corraine should spake to me like that, for I'd only a twig twisted at me hips to kape me trousies up, an' I thought 'twas that he had in his eye! 'Buckle to, says I, 'Father Corraine? Buckle to, yer riv'rince? feelin' I was at the twigs the while.

Gilbert Parker - Romany of the Snows, Continuation of "Pierre and His People"

I tell ye it's the divil's own colour, that blue-orange an' blue is the divil's own colours, shure enough, fur brimstone's yaller; an' its blue whin it's burnin', that I hed from his riv'rince himself bless him!" Dinner with the Witch Biddy meanwhile had waddled around the room slapping the boards with her broad bare feet as she prepared their dinner.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Two Little Savages : Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned