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Wuthering Heights vocabulary
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enow
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Let him have troops enow under his Command, with all the Fortresses in his Possession; and who know but (like some provincial Generals in the Roman Empire, and encouraged by the universal Discontent you have porduced) he may take it into his Head to set up for himself.
Benjamin Franklin. Rules by Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773)
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“we’s hae a crowner’s ‘quest enow, at ahr folks’. One on ’em ’s a’most getten his finger cut off wi’ hauding t’ other fro’ stickin’ hisseln loike a cawlf. That’s maister, yeah knaw, ’at ’s soa up o’ going tuh t’ grand ’sizes. He’s noan feared o’ t’ bench o’ judges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor noan on ’em, not he!
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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