Ay, honest aby, I wish the shiners' that I a spent and a bamboozild in that there France had a bin strewed over these here grounds.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
So that all together, I must say that if simple honest aby might paradventer to put in my oar to so generous and so noble a gentleman, and moreover won of his majesty's baronets, why I would keep the money now I had a got it; since, as your onnur finds, money is not so easy to be a come at.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Rapacious and narrow in his own plans, this wretch, this honest aby, as my father calls him, would not willingly suffer a guinea to be spent, except in improvements: that is, not a guinea which should not pass through his hands.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft