"Awk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... single is all weel enuff nah an then, But it's awk'ard when th' weshin day comes; For aw nivver think sooapsuds agree weel wi' men; They turn all ...
— Yorkshire Lyrics • John Hartley
... wiped her eyes. "He wur a good boy, wur Joe, goo where ur wool; but, Tom, couldn't thee 'a' kept thine eye on un when thee see thic Sergeant hoverin' roun' like a 'awk arter ...
— The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit • Richard Harris
... August, 1894, Mr. Hodgson sent from the Yorkshire moors a story of a keeper who, dissatisfied with the calendar, replies to a sportsman's inquiries: "Well, sir, middlin', pretty middlin'. But, oh dear, it's awk'ard this 'ere Twelfth bein' fixed of a Sunday! Now might Mr. Gladstone ha' had hanything to do wi' that arrangement, sir?" An outraged correspondent—a fluent Yorkshire conversationalist, of course—at once corrected the original version and translated it into the true vernacular: ...
— The History of "Punch" • M. H. Spielmann
... with either. But"—Mr Philp glanced back across the roadway and lowered his voice—"I'd like to warn you o' one thing. I don't know no unhandier houses for gettin' out a corpse. There's a turn at the foot o' the stairs; most awk'ard." ...
— Hocken and Hunken • A. T. Quiller-Couch |
