lieve

"Strues I'm bawn, I b'lieve he's done gone to sleep like ole Miss—he's settin' thar so still," she said.

One or two ast him square, I b'lieve, but he either pretended not to hear 'em, or got out of it somehow.

I don't b'lieve nothin', and try to keep a close mouth 'bout what I do b'lieve.

Dismissed his milkman because he was a Smith, and between you and I, I b'lieve half his opposition to you was your name.

"You would as lieve it was anybody else; but your other friends have left you to die like a dog," said Robinson sarcastically.