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* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Various, title=Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take you ome safely this most orful nite!" }}

* {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Jack O'Brien, title=Into the Jaws of Death, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Gorblimey, it's bleedin' orful ," said they. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Harry Kemp, title=Tramping on Life, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="That's a bally orful way to get even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward hatch. }}