airth
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a variation of
airt.
airtnouna direction.
Example Sentences
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"Jezebel?" says I. "What on airth do you call me that for?"
From The Postmaster by Joseph C. Lincoln
I should want to stop every thing up too; and how upon airth you are ever going to tell him what I want, I don't see.
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
Guess there must be places on this airth more countrified than Bridleburg.”
From The Girls of Hillcrest Farm The Secret of the Rocks by Amy Bell Marlowe
Gude-sake, Jenny, I believe gif there’s a better woman on this airth than thee, it’s Mrs Norton; but she’s na ye’re equal in soom things, lassie.
From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn
"A jungle—a jungle," continued the Squire, coughing in his embarrassment; "a jungle—is—a—place—a kind-er cave, where the lions go, deep inter the airth, and where they can growl and roar, without disturbin' anybody."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley