vools

Updated: May 2, 2025

"Throo aall the waarld owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes prating vur and nigh, We stwops at whum, my dog and I." Here, at any rate, lived and stopped at home Squire Brown, J.P. for the county of Berks, in a village near the foot of the White Horse range.

Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's School Days

Here Allworthy interposed, and addressing himself to the squire with some anger in his look, he said, "Mr Western, you have not kept your word with me. You promised to abstain from all violence." "Why, so I did," cries Western, "as long as it was possible; but to hear a wench telling such confounded lies Zounds! doth she think, if she can make vools of other volk, she can make one of me?

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

She wound the scarf and threw the end over her left shoulder with a duchess' grace. "A gouple of young vools," said Policeman Kohen to Ransom; "come on away." At the stroke of six Ikey Snigglefritz laid down his goose. Ikey was a tailor's apprentice. Are there tailor's apprentices nowadays?

O. Henry - The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million