"Wer machte denn der Mitwelt Spass?" ("Who is to amuse the present?") asks the wise Merry Andrew in FAUST.

We pay our debts, an' don't 'xpect nor don't wer-want to do any different.

"Wer-well, Mrs. Kinloch," said he, slowly, "I th-think I understand.

" "Wer-well, yer-you shan't.

"I knew th-that ef Squire Clamp hed anythin' to do against me, he wer-would sneak into the shop sus-some time when I'd ger-gone to dinner.

As ef you wa'n't tryin' to turn me out of wer-work altogether!

The last time I travelled on this road, I never failed, after dusk, to hear the shout of Wer da? of the Austrian sentries, long before I came up to them, and I always found them alert.

I don't spect she wer in arnest 'bout marrying de sojer, but she did want her freedom.

With these they put the Devil and his minions to rout and bear away the dead man's soul to the Holy Mountain, singing their triumphal chant Wer immer strebend sich bemüht, Den können wir erlösen.

'Power,' said I. 'Pow-wer,' said she.

,' said I. 'Hwhite Pow-wer,' said she.

'White Power shall not,' said I. 'Hwhite Pow-wer sall not,' said she.

'White Power shall not prevail,' said I. 'Hwhite Pow-wer sall notfffail,' said she.

He one is eure on eche stede, Wende wer thu wende.

This fellow, with a furrowed face and shaggy eyebrows, bald at top, but with long grizzled locks falling upon his shoulders, said, "He wer wi' me this mornin', sayin' he'd want t' boat to cross the lake in, but he didn't say what hour; and when it came on to thunder and blow like this, ye guess I did not look to see him to-night.

What it wer he could not think; but he never consayted there was a freet or a bo thereaway; so he kep near it, watching every spang and turn it took, till it ran into the gripe by the roadside.

"If any one sell his own countryman, bond or free, though he be guilty, over sea, let him pay for him according to his 'wer.'" As to "wer."

"If any one sell his own countryman, bond or free, though he be guilty, over sea, let him pay for him according to his 'wer.'" As to "wer."

The word "wer" is the word we have in "wer-wolf," meaning blood; for instance, "weregild" is a man's blood money.

The word "wer" is the word we have in "wer-wolf," meaning blood; for instance, "weregild" is a man's blood money.

"Let him who takes a thief, or to whom one taken is given, and he then lets him go, or conceals the theft, pay for the thief according to his 'wer.'

"If a man, kinless of paternal relatives, fight and slay a man, and then if he have maternal relatives, let them pay a third of the 'wer'; his guild-brethren a third part; for a third let him flee.

" The said William Raby came in the evening and brought the big vegetables, wrapped in an old newspaper, for Mr. Mortimer's acceptance, and when the old man came out into his hall to speak to him, Raby said "It wer' not only the money.

"Ay, her beher wer a saint, and sings in heaven now.

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