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Octavia and Cassandra were "keerless" of their clothes.

The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869

Octavia and Cassandra were "keerless" of their clothes.

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte 1869

"Mawnin '," says Lijah, keerless like, "yo 'been a hoodooin' any one lately, Aunt Maria?"

The Cat in Grandfather's House Carl Henry Grabo

Ole timey, an 'a trifle keerless about their accoutrements, an' too much water nachully keeps their guns rusty an 'their powder damp, but if it comes to a square-up fight agin the cohorts of sin, an' the powder in their pans is too damp for flashin ', they'd jes' as soon wade in with the butcher-knife an 'the meat axe.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

De mens wuz keerless 'bout de fire, en fo 'long de woods wuz on fire, en de way dat fire spread in dem dry grape vines in de woods mek it' peer lak jedgment day tuh us chilluns.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

Dey said 'Hoddy,' en Mars Dugal 'ax' im ter hab a seegyar; en atter dey run on awhile 'bout de craps en de weather, Mars Dugal 'ax' im, sorter keerless, like ez ef he des thought of it, --

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

One of his keerless ways was scatterin 'his clothes all over the house.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

His rig was kinder keerless, -- big spurs and high heeled boots;

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

"Ye see, captain," he said with jaunty easiness, "hosses is like wimmen; ye don't want ter use any standoffishness or shyness with _them_; a stiddy but keerless sort o 'familiarity, a kind o' free but firm handlin ', jess like this, to let her see who's master ----"

Short Stories of Various Types Various

Mars Dugal 'sot spring guns en steel traps, en he en de oberseah sot up nights once't er twice't, tel one night Mars Dugal' -- he 'uz a monst'us keerless man -- got his leg shot full er cow-peas.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various