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And then Miss Sally, in spite of her efforts to preserve a gravity befitting the calamity, broke down like the "kerridge" and laughed hysterically.

A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

"kerridge," -- not using that term, as liberal shepherds do, for any battered old shabby-genteel go-cart which has more than one wheel, but meaning thereby a four-wheeled vehicle WITH A POLE, -- my man

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

"kerridge," -- not using that term, as liberal shepherds do, for any battered old shabby-genteel go-cart which has more than one wheel, but meaning thereby a four-wheeled vehicle WITH A POLE, -- my man

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

"Don't yer see his kerridge is avaitin 'to take him to the Hopera?"

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But nut content with thet, they took a kerridge from the fence

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"We doesn't ingen'ally put blinders on de saddle hawses, Miss, but ef yer says so I'll tak 'em long back ter de stables an 'change de saddle headstalls fer de _kerridge_ ones, tho' it sure would look mighty cur'ous."

A Dixie School Girl

It was "bad enough to be kept waiting outside the station, while your master stood talking to a little feller as looked as like a rag and bone man as anythink; but when you was required to stop the kerridge and pick up every tramp as you overtook on the road, it was coming it a little too strong."

The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn J. W. Keyworth

Billy said he reckoned Satan had "jined de club"; and late one night, when he had not come in, Uncle Billy told Uncle Carey that it was "powerful slippery and he reckoned they'd better send de kerridge after him" -- an innocent remark that made Uncle Carey send

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

What them kerridge fellows needs is a bash or two in the jaw from the horny hand of toil.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

The 'Bus is the poor body's kerridge, young feller -- and as for your talk

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891 Various