But you - you have become what you are thanks to your fother-in-law. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Kazakhstan: Turmoil Royale] Reference
And avril lavigne sings the main song because she wrote this fricken movie fother muckers. From Wordnik.com. [Alice in Wonderland Soundtracks Revealed | /Film] Reference
The good fother with the twingling in his eye will always have cakes in his pocket to bethroat us with for our allmichael good. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
The explosion on board the whaler had driven in a section of the frigate's hull, but once the canvas fother was in place the pumps at last could begin to win the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
Arthur went about, and his knights by his side; nought they found alive upon earth but the great fire, and bones innumerable; by estimation it seemed to them thirty fother. From Wordnik.com. [Roman de Brut. English] Reference
On their fifth day, when the ship was riding so low she seemed sure to founder, Cochrane ordered another fother made, but this he ordered big enough to straddle half the starboard hull. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
"We must fother a sail and get it over that hole," he announced. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
Well don't mess with fother mucker, cause he'll put you in some serious hurt. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Business News] Reference
(Probably because they were using the same lie) could not be fother from the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Peggy Keys is a goin 'to begin huskin' next week, and we must have rye straw for the fother. From Wordnik.com. [John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania] Reference
His fother, who was largely engaged in Leicester in the profession of a maltster, married in 1 732-3. From Wordnik.com. [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference
We take off the husks nice and clean, strip off all the silk and tie up the fother in nice little sheaves. From Wordnik.com. [John and Mary; or, The Fugitive Slaves, a Tale of South-Eastern Pennsylvania] Reference
To fother a sail was to make something like a vast hairy doormat out of it, by threading innumerable lengths of half-unravelled line through it. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Midshipman Easy]
He had a strong feeling of the worthlessness of man's life in comparison with the work he has to do, even if that work be only the spreading of a fother of dung. From Wordnik.com. [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference
No mother, no brother, no fother to make a bother, that’s what they say of a low woman. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
"Then," said I, "you had better cut both your sails adrift and fother them over the leak; after which your only chance of safety will be to make for the nearest port -- which I take to be Porto Bello. From Wordnik.com. [The Log of a Privateersman] Reference
That coste largely of gold a fother. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Tales] Reference
That hadde ylad of dong ful many a fother. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Tales] Reference
"But there ain't aits nor yet fother, nor nowt for bedding down. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
“But there ain’t aits nor yet fother, nor nowt for bedding down. From Wordnik.com. [The Eustace Diamonds] Reference
\fother desired you would send the hinges and part of the press, that you had from her. From Wordnik.com. [Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society] Reference
Some hands employ’d sewing Oakham, Wool, etc., into a Lower Steering sail to fother the Ship; others employ’d at the Pumps, which still gain’d upon the. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Cook's Journal during his first voyage round the world] Reference
Then come home and fother them. From Wordnik.com. [A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide] Reference
Then come home and fother them. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan] Reference
Evening Orts is good morning-fother. From Wordnik.com. [Collection of Scotch Proverbs] Reference
Wee Davock hauds the nowt in fother. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Dame Tellus, 'cause she wanted fother. From Wordnik.com. [Hudibras] Reference
That hadde y-lad of dong ful many a fother, 47530. From Wordnik.com. [The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Lines 401-600] Reference
… Ask ur fother. From Wordnik.com. [Waitaminnit! If u - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
1777, by William Bowyer, to the Company of Stationers, as a Memorial of their Munificence to his fother after his loss by fire. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...] Reference
They would probably say they pronounce it "fahther" and we say "faether" but I think we say "fahther" and they say "fother". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: VARIETIES OF ENGLISH.] Reference
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