Philander went into the next room[…]and came back with a salt mackerel that drippedbrine like a rainstorm. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
Ariell: Not a ſoule But felt aFeauer of the madde, and plaid Some tricks of deſperation ; all but Mariners Plung'd in the foamingbryne, and quit the veſſell ; Then all a fire with me the Kings ſonneFerdinand With haire vp-ſtaring (then like reeds, not haire) Was the firſt man that leapt ; cride hell is empty, And all the Diuels are heere.
1918,Norman Lindsay,The Magic Pudding, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page52:
"Ho, aboard theSalt Junk Sarah, Rollin" home across the line, The Bo'sun collared the Captain's hat And threw it in thebrine.
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1867,CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page116, lines4-6:
Yer name var zetch avancet avare ye, e'en a dicke var hye, arent whilke yebrine o'zea an ye craggès o'noghanes cazed nae balke.
Your fame for such came before you even into this retired spot, to which neither thewaters of the sea below nor the mountains above caused any impediment.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page13
