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But it isna religion as was i' fault there; it was Seth Bede, as was allays a wool-gathering chap, and religion hasna cured him, the more's the pity.†
Chpt 1

allays = reduces the intensity of or calms
Thee't like thy dog Gyp—thee bark'st at me sometimes, but thee allays lick'st my hand after.†
Chpt 1
He's allays put up his hoss here, sir, iver since before I hed the Donnithorne Arms.†
Chpt 2 *
They say folks allays groon when they're hearkenin' to th' Methodys, as if they war bad i' th' inside.†
Chpt 2
Thee't allays stay till the last child's born.†
Chpt 4
But thee't allays so hard upo' thy feyther, Adam.†
Chpt 4
Aye, thee't allays ready enough at prayin', but I donna see as thee gets much wi' thy prayin'.†
Chpt 4
Take no thought for the morrow—take no thought—that's what thee't allays sayin'; an' what comes on't?†
Chpt 4
Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's.†
Chpt 4
Adam doesna pick a that'n; I can understan' the tex as he's allays a-sayin', 'God helps them as helps theirsens.'†
Chpt 4
"I'm sure I donna want t' go wi' the whittaws," said Molly, whimpering, and quite overcome by this Dantean picture of her future, "on'y we allays used to comb the wool for 'n at Mester Ottley's; an' so I just axed ye.†
Chpt 6
The child's allays i' mischief if your back's turned a minute.†
Chpt 6
Judith and me allays hung together, though she had such queer ways, but your mother and her never could agree.†
Chpt 6
I allays said that o' Judith, as she'd bear a pound weight any day to save anybody else carrying a ounce.†
Chpt 6
And even if you'd marry Seth Bede, as is a poor wool-gathering Methodist and's never like to have a penny beforehand, I know your uncle 'ud help you with a pig, and very like a cow, for he's allays been good-natur'd to my kin, for all they're poor, and made 'em welcome to the house; and 'ud do for you, I'll be bound, as much as ever he'd do for Hetty, though she's his own niece.†
Chpt 6
But, for the matter o' that, if everybody was to do like you, the world must come to a standstill; for if everybody tried to do without house and home, and with poor eating and drinking, and was allays talking as we must despise the things o' the world as you say, I should like to know where the pick o' the stock, and the corn, and the best new-milk cheeses 'ud have to go.†
Chpt 6
Things allays happen so contrairy, if they've a chance; and it's an unnat'ral thing to have one bit o' your farm in one county and all the rest in another.†
Chpt 6
I'm quite willing you should go and see th' old woman, for you're one as is allays welcome in trouble, Methodist or no Methodist; but, for the matter o' that, it's the flesh and blood folks are made on as makes the difference.†
Chpt 8
I allays said I'd never marry a man as had got no brains; for where's the use of a woman having brains of her own if she's tackled to a geck as everybody's a-laughing at?†
Chpt 9
There's no comfort for me no more," she went on, the tears coming when she began to speak, "now thy poor feyther's gone, as I'n washed for and mended, an' got's victual for him for thirty 'ear, an' him allays so pleased wi' iverything I done for him, an' used to be so handy an' do the jobs for me when I war ill an' cumbered wi' th' babby, an' made me the posset an' brought it upstairs as proud as could be, an' carried the lad as war as heavy as two children for five mile an' ne'er grumbled, all the way to Warson Wake, 'cause I wanted to go an' see my sister, as war dead an' gone the very next Christmas as e'er come.†
Chpt 10
I'n done everythin' now, an' he'd like thee to go an' look at him, for he war allays so pleased when thee wast mild to him.†
Chpt 10
Ye'll make it out as trouble's a good thing, like HE allays does.†
Chpt 10
I thank you kindly for comin', for it's little wage ye get by walkin' through the wet fields to see an old woman like me....Nay, I'n got no daughter o' my own—ne'er had one—an' I warna sorry, for they're poor queechy things, gells is; I allays wanted to ha' lads, as could fend for theirsens.†
Chpt 10
For thee'dst allays lie still wi' thy eyes open, an' Adam ne'er 'ud lie still a minute when he wakened.†
Chpt 10
Thee wast allays like a bag o' meal as can ne'er be bruised—though, for the matter o' that, thy poor feyther war just such another.†
Chpt 10
It might ha' been a trifle thicker an' no harm, an' I allays putten a sprig o' mint in mysen; but how's ye t' know that?†
Chpt 11
Thy figurin' books might ha' tould thee better nor that, I should think, else thee mightst as well read the commin print, as Seth allays does.†
Chpt 14
Eh, thee't allays stick up for thy brother.†
Chpt 14
Thee wart allays for halving iverything wi' him.†
Chpt 14
But that's the way; folks mun allays choose by contrairies, as if they must be sorted like the pork—a bit o' good meat wi' a bit o' offal.†
Chpt 14
But folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done.†
Chpt 14
She allays takes against Hetty when she isn't well.†
Chpt 14
I've had enough to be thankful for: I've allays had health and strength and brains to give me a delight in my work; and I count it a great thing as I've had Bartle Massey's night-school to go to.†
Chpt 16
It's allays been easier for me to work nor to sit still, but the real tough job for me 'ud be to master my own will and temper and go right against my own pride.†
Chpt 18
"Ah," said Mrs. Poyser, "an' it's poor work allays settin' the dead above the livin'.†
Chpt 18
I've been forced t' have Nancy in, upo' 'count as Hetty must gether the red currants to-night; the fruit allays ripens so contrairy, just when every hand's wanted.†
Chpt 20
"Thank you, Mrs. Poyser," said Adam; "a drink o' whey's allays a treat to me.†
Chpt 20
The Miss Irwines allays say, 'Oh, Mrs. Poyser, I envy you your dairy; and I envy you your chickens; and what a beautiful thing a farm-house is, to be sure!'†
Chpt 20
Here's to your health, and may you allays have strength to look after your own dairy, and set a pattern t' all the farmers' wives in the country.†
Chpt 20
"Ah," he said, "that's like the ladies in the pictures at the Chase; they've mostly got flowers or feathers or gold things i' their hair, but somehow I don't like to see 'em they allays put me i' mind o' the painted women outside the shows at Treddles'on Fair.†
Chpt 20
I'd made a frame for a screen for Miss Lyddy—she's allays making something with her worsted-work, you know—and she'd given me particular orders about this screen, and there was as much talking and measuring as if we'd been planning a house.†
Chpt 21
And her aunt allays says how clever she is at the work.†
Chpt 27
The hope allayed his anger a little.†
Chpt 27

allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
Adam was keenly alive to these indications, and as his anxiety about Arthur's condition began to be allayed, he felt more of that impatience which every one knows who has had his just indignation suspended by the physical state of the culprit.†
Chpt 28
"Her head was allays likely to be turned," he thought, "when a gentleman, with his fine manners, and fine clothes, and his white hands, and that way o' talking gentlefolks have, came about her, making up to her in a bold way, as a man couldn't do that was only her equal; and it's much if she'll ever like a common man now."†
Chpt 30

allays = reduces the intensity of or calms
I daresay he'd think me a hodd talker, as you Loamshire folks allays does hany one as talks the right language.†
Chpt 32
"Good-day, Mrs. Poyser," said the old squire, peering at her with his short-sighted eyes—a mode of looking at her which, as Mrs. Poyser observed, "allays aggravated me: it was as if you was a insect, and he was going to dab his finger-nail on you."†
Chpt 32
"Poor thing!" he said to himself, "that's allays likely.†
Chpt 33
Hetty's fear was allayed by and by, when she found that the coachman made no further allusion to her personal concerns; but it still had the effect of preventing her from asking him what were the places on the road to Windsor.†
Chpt 36

allayed = reduced the intensity of or calmed
An' I feel i' fault myself, for she was my niece, and I was allays hot for her marr'ing ye.†
Chpt 38

allays = reduces the intensity of or calms

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(1) (allay)
reduce the intensity of; or calm
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