“ Have parted many a good man and his mere [mare] .
[The river Kent, at low water, flows in several channels over the sands, to the middle of Morecambe Bay. The Keer enters upon the sands in a broad and rapid current, rendering the passage over it at times more dangerous than fording the Kent. Many have perished in fording both rivers when swollen, and in crossing the adjacent sands, without due regard to the state of the tide] .
"All we, like sheep, have gone astray." ”

“ A steady person is said to be "like Colne clock—always at one;" i.e, always the same.
Birtle [or Bircle] folk are a deeal on 'em sib an' sib, rib an' rib,— o' oo a litter,—Fittons and Diggles, and Fittons and Diggles o'er again.
He'll sit a fire eawt ony time, tellin' his bits o' country tales.
Newyer's days keep'n comin reawn, like old Ratcher's cream-jug, 'ut never stopt till somebody wur laid under th' table. ”

“ Folk connut expect to ha' youth at bwoth ends o' life, aw guess; an' we mun o' un us owd be, or young dee, as th' sayin' is.
It 's cowd enough theer to starve an otter to deeath i' winter-time.
Folk at 's a dur to keep oppen connut do't wi' th' wynt. [Folk that have a house to maintain cannot do it with the wind.] ”