Pursy

To cure me they did Cruelly bait me to Marry the Pursy Ninny that hath the Plantation beyond the Hopes, he that hath been

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

Pursy and important, he sat him down at the table, and many a dark word he threw out, of benefits to be expected to the convent, and high deeds of service done by himself, which, at another season, would have attracted observation.

Ivanhoe 1892

Or, as the feller said to his second wife, when she tapped him on the shoulder, 'Marm, my first wife was a _Pursy_, and she never presumed to take that liberty.'

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Or, as the feller said to his second wife, when she tapped him on the shoulder, 'Marm, my first wife was a _Pursy_, and she never presumed to take that liberty.'

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Pursy and important, he sat him down at the table, and many a dark word he threw out, of benefits to be expected to the convent, and high deeds of service done by himself, which, at another season, would have attracted observation.

Ivanhoe. A Romance 1819