 | 1008 pages
...miller and fanner of him ; for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got : all the schoolin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and th' alphabet at th' other. But I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to... | |
 | George Eliot - Brothers and sisters - 1860 - 384 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him; for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got: all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...wi" these law-suits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad—I should be sorry for him to be a raskill—but a sort... | |
 | 1860 - 698 pages
...meant to make a miller and a farrier of him, for he's had a fine light more schooling nor ever I got ; all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to the triclu o' t la'Si- felluws as talk fine, and write with a flourish. It 'ml be a help to me wi' these... | |
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1867 - 628 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got : all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad — I should be sorry for him to be a raskill — but... | |
 | George Eliot - 1870 - 816 pages
...miller and farmer of him, for he 's had a fine sight more schoolin" nor /ever got : all the learnin' mi/ father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end,...the alphabet at th' other. But I should like Tom to he a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to the tricks o' these fellows as talk fine and write... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...if he gets it when I 'm dead an' gone. I shan't be put off wi' spoon-meat afore I Ve lost my teeth. All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...and write with a flourish. It 'ud be a help to me wi7 these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. Not but what, if the world had been left as God made... | |
 | George Eliot - 1878 - 440 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got : all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad — I should be sorry for him' to be a raskill — but... | |
 | George Eliot - 1883 - 850 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got : all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad — I should be sorry for him to be a raskill — but... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor /ever got : all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...th' other. But I should like Tom to be a bit of a schollard, so as he might be up to the tricks o' these fellows a stalk fine and write with a nourish.... | |
 | George Eliot - 1886 - 516 pages
...meant to make a miller and farmer of him, for he's had a fine sight more schoolin' nor / ever got: all the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit...wi' these lawsuits, and arbitrations, and things. I wouldn't make a downright lawyer o' the lad — I should be sorry for him to be a raskill — but... | |
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... birch at one end and the alphabet at th' other. But I should like Tom to be a bit of a scholard, so as he might be up to the tricks o' these fellows as talk fine and write with a flourish. 
