| It lets a whole lot o' things go on that you'd think ought to 'a' been stopped hundreds of years ago by ack of Parliament. |
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| I could 'a' stood the throw-down, but to be throwed down in a heap with eggs an' dirty clo'es, was too much. |
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| In my opinion he was so scairt he couldn't 'a' told a hennock from a handsaw anyway. |
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| If you had married him you'd 'a' had a position, like they say here, right away. |
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| Say, Tex, honest Injun, would you 'a' fired off that dynamite if it had come to a showdown? |
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| Whar would we 'a' be'n ef her folks at de No'th hadn' 'membered us no bettuh? |
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| Now if I'd 'a' forgot your uncle's bed, he'd 'a' made it hisself and said nothing. |
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| Yessar, sum one mus' 'a' sperited dat file inter de jail, an' ob cou'se no ossifer would 'a dun it. |
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| I'll just bet you'd 'a' beaned me one with that as soon as not, eh, Miss Deane? |
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| The minute they started their drillin' an' palaver, they ought to 'a' been stopped. |
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| You'd 'a' thought I'd sold him a second, or asked him to work on Yom Kippur! |
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| I'd 'a' fallen clear to the bottom of the Devil's Kitchen if't hadn't been for Mr. pendragon, as he was then. |
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| They had to be took out with a pinchers or they'd 'a' sewed his skin on to a barn door. |
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| The Society was rill large then, an' what happened might 'a' been expected. |
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| When I was a girl, I could 'a' been quite an elocutionist if I could 'a' had lessons. |
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| They'd 'a' had to be purty small bears, but they could 'a' been cubs, easy. |
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| I ked 'a' swallered the muddiest water as ever war found in a puddle, an' neyther frogs nor tadpoles would 'a' deterred me. |
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| I shed 'a' done so, hed it been near enough, tho' I knowed I ked niver 'a' swum ashore. |
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| The fifty dollars would 'a' been good enough, but he must needs go and put it into those elegant purses. |
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| All these actor cheps know it, so of course 'e'd 'a' known abaht it, too. |
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| I'd 'a' felt foolish to have anyone know jest why I was makin' the trip. |
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| You bet Mr. Arledge would 'a' got my decision right hot off the griddle. |
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| If I'd 'a' called it a bolthead it would 'a' done just as well. |
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| He must 'a' got caught in an explosion of freckles sometime. |
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| I tell you Harriet Beecher Stowe herself couldn't 'a' done it better justice. |
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| And 'accompaning' still needs to elide the second 'a' to fit the metre. |
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| Both verse lines use the repetition of 'm', 'o' and 'a' sounds in successive opening spondees to create a tranquil pastoral scene. |
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| If I'd been a drinkin' man I'd 'a' been sure I had the jimmies. |
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| That 'orse must 'a' galloped into the linhay and killed him. |
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| I might 'a' known first glance, for you're like him as his tintype. |
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| Well, hit do look sorter so, but I wouldn't 'a' b'lieved it, Mars Tom. |
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| You'd 'a' got your come-uppance, too, if you'd 'a' been a mobber. |
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| He ain't liked the way things 'a' been goin' since he got outa jail. |
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| He'd 'a' gaen into a pit, gin there'd been ane, an' Pu'd it in ahind 'im. |
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| You look at the umlaut over the 'a' in Richard, note the plus sign, take a look at the rather good architecture and conclude this is an enigmatic German or Swiss practice. |
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| Well, sir, if there'd been a brass band to bust out some music, then, it would 'a' been just the perfectest thing I ever see, and Tom Sawyer he said the same. |
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