The whole side of the peat-stack had tumbled bodily into the great "black peat-hole" from which the winter's peats had come, and which was a favourite lair of Jock's own, being ankle-deep in fragrant dry peat "coom" -- which is, strange to say, a perfectly clean and even a luxurious bedding, far to be preferred as a couch to "flock" or its kindred abominations. ❋ Unknown (1887)
Most had been on Everest for more than a month, hauling gear to the base camp and then furnishing successively higher temporary camps along the glacial valley known as the Western Cwm (pronounced "coom"). ❋ Unknown (2008)
Then th 'feller sammed up th' coppers, an 'coom'd reight to whear we wor, an' climbed ovver th 'wall. ❋ John Hartley (1877)
I emerged from the theater and encountered David with an apparatus around his head and he yelled at me "coom 'ere Braan, just listen ter this" - this was my first encounter with the Sony Walkman - at that time known as the Sony Soundabout. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"You coom from a femily ov teeves and boochers..." ❋ N A (2010)
‘There I lay, snoog in schoolmeasther’s bed long efther it was dark, and nobody coom nigh the pleace. ❋ Unknown (2007)
‘Stars and garthers, chap!’ said John, ‘wa’at dost thou coom and say thot for? ❋ Unknown (2007)
Shortly afterwards I emerged from the coom or valley of the Rhymni, and entered upon a fertile and tolerably level district. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Some minutes elapsed before Dolly could make shift to exclaim, “Am coom to live and daai with my beloved leady!” — “Dear Dolly!” cried her mistress, ❋ Unknown (2004)
‘Cross the rhaine,’ they shouted out, ‘cross the rhaine, and coom within rache:’ but the other mongrel Britons, with a mongrel at their head, found it pleasanter to shoot men who could not shoot in answer, than to meet the chance of mischief from strong arms, and stronger hearts. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Arl the news coom from them nowadays, instead of from here, as her ought to do. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Wull, as I coom down the hill, I zeed a saight of volks astapping of the ro-udwai. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
But finding now that I had foughten three-score fights already, he came up to me woefully, in the quickness of my breathing, while I sat on the knee of my second, with a piece of spongious coralline to ease me of my bloodshed, and he says in my ears, as if he was clapping spurs into a horse, — ‘Never thee knack under, Jan, or never coom naigh Hexmoor no more.’ ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
No youngster will dare to partake of ECHIDNA (“coom-be-yan”) at the risk of the prescribed consequences; and to the old men the fiction stands in the place (as was recently pointed out) of an annuity or old age pension. ❋ Unknown (2003)
‘Often as I coom to myseln, and found it shinin’ on me down there in my trouble, I thowt it were the star as guided to Our ❋ Unknown (2002)
So break out that can of kitty coom-botty ooooo (note 1) ❋ David Nelson (1998)
IX He leaned back and called breathily upward, "arethos, imedshud! intob coom." ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1984)
But why didn't you coom to dinner, lad? 'he cried, his brother's remark having, as the latter intended, put him in a good humour. ❋ May Baldwin (N/A)
Ricketty by the coat-tails, he dragged him towards the door, saying, "I nefer go pack by anydings vat mine vife does, meester, but ven you haf shewels some more, yust coom along ven I vas der shtore py mineselluf, hey?" ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)