ere

And I are been thinkin' about them 'ere red-skinned varmints.

Only Messrs. Seward and Bates hang timidly behind, waiting for stronger manifestations, ere they hang out their flags.

Ere he reached the spot, a ball hit him on the ankle, and shivered the joint to pieces.

He considered for a minute or two—an age it appeared to me—ere he answered.

I wish the children was 'ere,' he sez; 'but you couldn't get 'em all in this little room.

We submissively struck our colours, and ere long were boarded by my brother and Sir Walter Mayton.

Forty church steeples in one warnt nowhar to that ere pinnacle in the clouds.

Ah, uncle, in Canada we don't do our hay-makin' in this 'ere old-fashioned way.

First and foremost, Isaac lad, are you so ignorant as to think the king is here in this ere province to be run out?

Well may we pause then and weigh every chance of happiness, ere we take the last and final step in any great or novel measure.