p'isen

Dem lies folks b'en tellin 'her had p'isen' her min '' g'in 'Dave.

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

Why, the wimmen-folks of Vienny will put p'isen in your biscuits if you go home beat by anything that Smyrna can turn out.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

"You jest think of a lovin ', trustin', and confidin 'woman gettin' holt of a gob of p'isen like that!"

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

Dem lies folks b'en tellin 'her had p'isen' her min '' g'in 'Dave.

Dave's Neckliss 1889

Old Coyote mixes his p'isen with beef tallow, biles them ingredients up together a lot, an 'then, while she's melted that a-way, he pours it into these yere auger holes an' lets it cool.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Black Cloud throws the dog's heart among them an 'teases them with it; an' the rattlesnakes bite the dog's heart ag'in an 'ag'in ontil it's as full of p'isen as a bottle is of rum.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Takes a hooker of whiskey, puts in p'isen enough to down a dozen wolves, an 'drinks off every drop.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

As he's about to start, Black Cloud dips the four steel arrowheads over an 'over in the p'isened heart, bein' careful to dry the p'isen on the arrowheads; an 'now whoever is touched with these arrows so that the blood comes is shore to die.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

The wolf has to lick the arsenic-tallow out with his tongue an 'the p'isen has time an' gets in its work.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"New man I may be, but I ain't new among men, an 'it ain't men like Cap'n Barry as runs p'isen to poor niggers."

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle