"I say, my little darlint," said he, winking, and touching her lightly under the ribs with his outstretched palm, "my little _moochacha_ -- that's what they call thim -- isn't it, Raowl?" ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
"Do you call thim two sods, Jack Laniran? why, 'tis only one long one broke in the middle; but you must make it up tomorrow. ❋ William Carleton (1831)
'What's the shtuff growin' out there, 'says I,' wid the dark red leaves to it, or maybe ye'd call thim purple? ' ❋ Various (N/A)
Nachrally they can't tear off very far or they wudden't hear th 'whistle whin it blew to call thim back. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
Th 'throuble with th' race we're bringin 'up is that th' fair sect, as Shakespeare calls thim, lacks inthrest in their jooty to their husbands. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
Ye cudden't make Americans iv thim if ye called thim all ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
All th 'pathrites an', as th 'pa-apers call thim, th' high-priests iv this here sacred rite, ar-re smokin 'th' best seegars that th 'token money iv our counthry can buy. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
Thin Casey 'd call on Doolan f'r to stand his ground an' desthroy th 'polis, --' th 'onions iv th' monno-polists, 'he called thim, -- an' Doolan 'd say,' Hear, hear, 'till ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
They haven't th 'right to make laws, but they have th' priv'lege iv breakin 'thim, which is betther. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
'Ah, love!' she says, 'recall thim happy goolden days iv our coortship, whin we walked th' counthry lane in th 'light iv th' moon, 'she says,' an hurl yer maulies into his hoops, 'she says. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
Think iv that gran 'procission iv lithry men, -- Tinnyson an' Longfellow an 'Bill Nye an' Ella Wheeler Wilcox an 'Tim Scanlan an' -- an 'I can't name thim all: they're too manny. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
"I'll give you me misfort'nit word thim other two is the pólis." ❋ Jane Barlow (1887)
Sure, we've just drew the foire, an 'thim's the hot coals! ❋ Edgar Franklin (1918)
Th 'islands has been ownded be Spain since befure th' fire; an 'she's threated thim so well they're now up in ar-rms again her, except a majority iv thim which is thurly loyal. ❋ Finley Peter Dunne (1901)
Go back to y'r condinsation, Coolin, an 'take truth to y'r Bowl that there's many ways to die, an' one o 'thim's in the commysariat, ❋ Gilbert Parker (1897)
For all the differ I see 'twixt the pair o 'thim' d fit in a nut: ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
For mighty few o 'thim's rael Quality, musha, they're mostly a pack ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)
"Thrue, yer honour," replied the blacksmith, as he received the instrument, "there's a great want of faymales in thim parts; but the sailors have consinted to ripresint the purty craytures on the present occasion, which is but right, for, ye see, the most o 'thim's shorter nor us, an' their wide breeches are more like the pitticoats than our leggin's." ❋ Unknown (1859)
And I'm not sayin 'it isn't a merry-go-around-about, or whativer ye call thim noisy things that they do be havin' down by the circus tent, and I'm not sayin 'it is. " ❋ Carolyn Wells (1902)
