All 13 Uses
allay
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Silas Marner
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- The truth lies atween you: you're both right and both wrong, as I allays say.†
Chpt 1.6 *allays = reduces the intensity of or calms
- "Aye, aye," said Mr. Macey, who felt very well satisfied with this attack on youthful presumption; "you're right there, Tookey: there's allays two 'pinions; there's the 'pinion a man has of himsen, and there's the 'pinion other folks have on him.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Lor bless you!" said Mr. Macey, pausing, and smiling in pity at the impotence of his hearer's imagination—"why, I was all of a tremble: it was as if I'd been a coat pulled by the two tails, like; for I couldn't stop the parson, I couldn't take upon me to do that; and yet I said to myself, I says, "Suppose they shouldn't be fast married, 'cause the words are contrairy?" and my head went working like a mill, for I was allays uncommon for turning things over and seeing all round 'em; and I says to myself, "Is't the meanin' or the words as makes folks fast i' wedlock?"†
Chpt 1.6
- Aye, I held in tight till I was by mysen wi' Mr. Drumlow, and then I out wi' everything, but respectful, as I allays did.†
Chpt 1.6
- For there was allays a talk as nobody could get rich on the Warrens: though he holds it cheap, for it's what they call Charity Land.†
Chpt 1.6
- That's what you're allays at; if I throw a stone and hit, you think there's summat better than hitting, and you try to throw a stone beyond.†
Chpt 1.8
- I used to think, when you first come into these parts, as you were no better nor you should be; you were younger a deal than what you are now; but you were allays a staring, white-faced creatur, partly like a bald-faced calf, as I may say.†
Chpt 1.10
- Well, whativer the letters are, they've a good meaning; and it's a stamp as has been in our house, Ben says, ever since he was a little un, and his mother used to put it on the cakes, and I've allays put it on too; for if there's any good, we've need of it i' this world.†
Chpt 1.10
- He's my youngest, and we spoil him sadly, for either me or the father must allays hev him in our sight—that we must.†
Chpt 1.10
- And one while he was allays after Miss Nancy, and then it all went off again, like a smell o' hot porridge, as I may say.†
Chpt 1.11
- My husband says I'm allays like as if I was putting the haft for the handle—that's what he says—for he's very sharp, God help him.†
Chpt 1.14
- That's what I do wi' the pups as the lads are allays a-rearing.†
Chpt 1.14
- But what come to me as clear as the daylight, it was when I was troubling over poor Bessy Fawkes, and it allays comes into my head when I'm sorry for folks, and feel as I can't do a power to help 'em, not if I was to get up i' the middle o' the night—it comes into my head as Them above has got a deal tenderer heart nor what I've got—for I can't be anyways better nor Them as made me; and if anything looks hard to me, it's because there's things I don't know on; and for the matter o' that, there may be plenty o' things I don't know on, for it's little as I know—that it is.†
Chpt 2.16
Definitions:
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(1)
(allay) reduce the intensity of; or calm
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)