gin'ral

Ole Miss gib me my papers so I mought stay wid my fambly when she follow de gin'ral and his father to

The Rose of Old St. Louis Mary Dillon

Den he ma she powerful took back dat li'l black Mose he gwine be so upotish an 'contrydict folks whut know' rifmeticks an 'algebricks an' gin'ral countin 'widout fingers, like de school-teacher whut board at

The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

I inclines ter think Hezekier wuz 'bout de highes 'in de gin'ral avrig, an' he war no mighty man hisse'f.

John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908

Den he ma she powerful took back dat li'l 'black Mose he gwine be so uppetish an' contrydict folks whut know 'rifmeticks an' algebricks an 'gin'ral countin' widout fingers, like de school-teacher whut board at

Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

"Fwhat if she lays here on that gin'ral theory till she's rotted up, sorr?"

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

"Mammy, yer gran'son's a born gin'ral; I never seen any man to 'pare with the swing dat's on him outside o' ol 'Gin'ral Burnsis."

Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

He suffered fr'm warts whin a boy, which sometimes leads to bozimbral hoptocollographophiloplutomania, or what th 'Germans call tantrums, but me gin'ral con-clusion was that he was perfectly sane all his life till this minnyit, an' that so much sanity wint to his head an 'blew th' cover off. '

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Ye look at me with a gin'ral eye. Nawthin 'that happens to me really hurts ye.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

There goes me dhream iv bein 'sultan along with me dhream iv bein' a gr-reat gin'ral till th 'Spanish war.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

I can't exactly make out what th 'charge was that they arrested him on, but th' gin'ral idee is that Jawn D. was goin 'around loaded up to th' guards with Standard Ile, exceedin 'th' speed limit in acquirin 'money, an' singin ''A charge to keep I have' till th 'neighbors cud stand it no longer.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901