gen'l'man

Didn't I change you off, en give you a good fambly en a good name, en made you a white gen'l'man en rich, wid store clothes on -- en what did I git for it?

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

"Dis is the gen'l'man wot'll go on Mr. Tulitz's bond, mum," said the guard.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

They say he's the pootiest gen'l'man that was ever in the town here.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

I never wish to meet a better gen'l'man for turning to with a will.

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

_ Two examples from a universally recognised authority will illustrate the flexibility of our language in the general use of tenses: (1) "'I know a gen'l'man, sir,' said Mr. Weller, 'as did that, and _begun_ at two yards; but he never tried it on ag'in; for he _blowed_ the bird right clean away at the first fire, and nobody ever _seed_ a feather on him arterwards.'"

The Patient Observer And His Friends Simeon Strunsky 1913

For if at the moment she mumbled out a complaint about chillens too young to know their own minds being prone to fly off with the first young w'ite gen'l'man that came along frum nobody knowed whar, still there was nothing begrudged or forced about the vocal jubilations with which she made the house ring during the succeeding week.

From Place to Place 1910

"De gen'l'man dat sent me fur his bag is right down yere, I keeps tellin 'you," Trencher heard the scared darky babbling as he was yanked past Trencher's refuge.

From Place to Place 1910

De young gen'l'man ain't j'ined de fambly yit an 'already he's settin' hisse'f to run it.

From Place to Place 1910

Waiter runs around trying to find gen'l'man to pay for undrunk drinks.

The Women of Tomorrow 1910

"Mistah Dane is a puffect gen'l'man," she continued.

The King's Arrow A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists 1910