Simon-pure

"He's a labrick -- just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one."

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

'S nuthin 'like the raäl odds an' ends -- the Simon-pure, ginooine article -- to bind up the broken heart an 'make the mourners joyful.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

The bravery of the Indians is of a different stamp from that which is exhibited by the whites, especially where the white man is a Simon-pure western trapper.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

There is no one thing Simon-pure trappers consider to be a greater folly than firing their rifles on such an occasion as is here described.

The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself de Witt C. Peters

"Didn't know I had a real Simon-pure altruist for a son."

The Cosmic Computer H. Beam Piper 1934

Same way with a boob that grows fat on his own folly -- he must be a Simon-pure simp.

Poor Little Eddie 1916

The real, Simon-pure, blue-gum, thick-lip, coal-black negro is passing away -- certainly in the cities; and the fathers of the new generation of Negroes are white men, while their mothers are unmarried, colored women.

More Slavery at the South A Negro Nurse 1912

After learning all I could possibly from the drawings and plans of the Monitor, I proposed to the inventor to go and examine the Simon-pure article, and we crossed the ferry to Greenpoint, where, if I remember rightly, the vessel was building.

The Romance of the Civil War 1903

For Simon-pure sense there isn't her equal on earth.

Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

"He's a labrick -- just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one."

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893