sphite

Updated: May 13, 2025

Then the jangle of voices took on a new and distinct note of unanimity. "Turn the boat, Denny," they shouted to the man at the wheel. "Turn the boat around. We'll go home in sphite o' thim, the vilyuns." Their footfalls sounded fainter and fainter as they rushed aft; and Murphy picked himself up from the floor, now almost denuded of its brick paving.

Morgan Robertson - The Grain Ship

I knowed I'd fix him all right, an' he knowed it, an' his Ma knowed it when she let him come. Did she say onything about it?" "No, Granny, not a word." "The dhirty hussy! Saved the boy's life in sphite of their robbin' me an' she ain't human enough to say 'thank ye' the dhirty hussy! May God forgive her as I do," said the old woman with evident and implacable enmity. "Fwhat hev ye got thayer?

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