It seems that the supposed ancestor were a great felly for dress, and expected the like of all the men under him; and though he often had niver a crust of bread to put into their mouths, he always managed to have a pinch of white powder for them to dress their hair.

I niver du 'xpect nothin' from; you can't make a silk pus out uv a sow's ear.

It niver rains but it pours, they say.

"The school was a great four-square stone buildin' beside a windy road, and niver a tree in sight; but pastures where the grass would cut your boot, an' stone walls, an' brown hills around, like the rim av a saucer.

I niver du 'xpect nothin' from; you can't make a silk pus out uv a sow's ear.