It wos wot I used ter pinch when I turned out 'is pockets!
Illustration] There wos patriots playing the clown, there was magistrates playing the fool; There wos jugginses teaching the trombone to kids at a bloomin' Board School.
In fact I wos napped on the nod, But the way I got wokewos a wunner.
It wos dry and a little bit dazing, this cram, and you won't think it's odd If yours truly got doosedly drowsy.
I almost had a round wi' the landlord; but they towld me itwos the same iverywhere.
We wos jist about ready to slope when you appeared.
I wos wantin' to ax ye, sir, av ye could put in me pick and shovel in the lan'scape.
By this time Archie was at the core of his theme, and his treatment of it was so masterly that Betty found herself thrilling with surprise and delight.
Presently Lady Randolph, under cover of the chatter, said a few words: "I account for our surprise this morning in one word: Inspiration.
Do you think that I was right or wrong because I refused to add burdens to a back already bowed?
But on the brink of declaration he hesitated, fearing to leap.
It sounded better than I expected," he said, wondering if she would guess.
These, and a thousand other thoughts, jostled each other in his brain.
These patches in the landscape had a weird fascination.
Here and there amidst this rich pastoral country Betty found sterile acres where even the hardy fir failed to find sustenance.
At the end Mark said nervously: "The heart is not weaker than it was?
And I've changed the paper in my boudoir, which used to be a depressing blue, to bright yellow.
It wosquite like ole times larst night," said 'Liza, grinning.
I wos married fust that vay myself, sir, and Sammy was the consekens o' the manoover.
If he got any wrinkles in his face, they wos stopped up vith the dirt, for both the dirty face and the brown coat wos just the same at the end o' that time as they wos at the beginnin'.
She wos a wery fine 'ooman, sir, ven I first know'd her.
Then, sir, there wos the two postmen as used to leave the letters in the street.
One night I wosin the kitching when Molly 'eard 'im coming down.
There wos letters outside wrote large by Molly, 'For Barbara.
Once, sir, the same way, and I think she knew I wos 'iding, but she never sed nothink.
Then there wos the coal cellar pritty well full of coals, and lots of wood to make a fire with.
He laughed when I said this, an' told me he wos collectin' them to take home to be looked at.
The very first mile o' the way back I began to mend, and before two days I wos all right again.
Some said they wos fairy-rings, but at last they comed to know they wos nothin' more nor less than places where buffaloes wos used to waller in.
Man wosnever intended to swaller his joys without a strong mixtur' o' troubles.
Jim Scraggs, who brought the news, said they wos all lying dead with their scalps off.
I wondered what they wos for, but he wos al'ays doin' sich queer things that I soon forgot it.
And then all ov a sudden he axed me wot I wud do ef I wosin his plaace.
I shud be shaamed to look 'ee in the faace, ef I wos to taake yer money fer a drop o' milk.
He wudden tell nothin' and nothin' cud be proved agin un, but 'ee wos the most miserable man that ever walked the earth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
