They often scruple to approach a corpse, saying that the 'mawn' will seize them and that it fastens upon them in the night when asleep. ❋ Watkin Tench (1796)
Ai haz nawt herd teh werd honyock since mai mawn wood cawl us that elebenty elebenty yeers ago! ❋ Unknown (2010)
September 27, 2009 at 10:14 am dat dey do….aifink ai will get a hawt chawklitt…et weel calm mai nerves frum waitin foar mai nawt-brudder to deliver…she is in lawts of pain rite nao, or at least dats whut mai mawn says at last update. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I tryse to be nyce to de critters but dey jest doan lyke me fer taykin der mawn fer muh wyfe. ❋ Unknown (2009)
A mawm is a mawm is a mawn, beez it kitteh, hooman, doggeh, wutevr… ❋ Unknown (2008)
An apple-mill and press had been erected on the spot, to which some men were bringing fruit from divers points in mawn-baskets, while others were grinding them, and others wringing down the pomace, whose sweet juice gushed forth into tubs and pails. ❋ Unknown (2006)
None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, ‘the spirit of the deceased would seize them’. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Streets and squares a 'grass-grown, sae that they micht be mawn! ❋ Various (N/A)
W'y, dey done move out dis mawn, right f'um dis ve'y house you stan'in in front de gate of. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
De gyahd he say dat Dago willin 'pay fifty cents a day fo' me to teck an 'bring a message eve'y mawn' tell de quahumteem took off de cellar. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
Jass reach out fo 'de nighes' he kin lay han's on, an 'dis mawn' it happen soze it were you, honey. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
If you want to be moddist, be moddist on your aown accahnt, nort on mawn. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
Youah mammy'll hol 'you, hol' you till de mawn appeah. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
Tho 'Time wi' his scythe hed mawn t 'crop on his heead ❋ Frederic William Moorman (1895)
Diana may have ruled the hall, but Andrew must have remained absolute in the gardens, with "something to maw that he would like to see mawn, or something to saw that he would like to see sawn, or something to ripe that he would like to see ripen, and sae he e'en daikered on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end," and life's end. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
And, to speak truth, I hae been flitting every term these four-and-twenty years; but when the time comes, there's aye something to saw that I would like to see sawn, -- or something to maw that I would like to see mawn, -- or something to ripe that I would like to see ripen, -- and sae I e'en daiker on wi 'the family frae year's end to year's end. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
None of the natives who had come in the boat would touch the body, or even go near it, saying, the mawn would come; that is literally, 'the spirit of the deceased would seize them'. ❋ Watkin Tench (1796)
