"Them's the iligant bastes, Darby," said one of the bystanders, as the horses moved past.
"St. Patrick's Eve"
Charles James Lever
These bastes have as many lives as a cat; and maybe he would have come to again, and taken to ateing us instead of our ateing him, as I hope we will be afther doing before long.
"Afar in the Forest"
W.H.G. Kingston
Niver mind the nets, or the fish, or the mosquito bastes.
"Afar in the Forest"
W.H.G. Kingston