cretur

Bazil was held to service or labor by Thornton Pool, a store-keeper, and also farmer, and at the same time an ardent lover of the "cretur," so much so that

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

He seemed a merry, careless, honest cretur, whom one would trust with life and soul.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

Sudden as winking the ornery old cretur went an to smash, and fell up against the man, and put his chin on his shoulder, and cried down his back, and says:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 2003

No longer ago than yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house down.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

"The ocean is a dretful disconserlate-soundin 'cretur," remarked Uncle

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

"Farmin 'is kind of poor business for a woman; but I do hope, Mirandy, you ain't a-goin' to marry that poor, pigeon-breasted, peddlin 'cretur that's hangin' round here."

Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

It's no use asking me, I'm a sot cretur where I am sot, aunt

The Old Homestead Ann S. Stephens

"Ah," said the mother, "the poor cretur does sometimes talk about religion, but it's very seldom, and uncertain like, and I can't help her either."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

The cretur didn't touch him, but come up agin, and poked his nose into, the door of the mate's room, that was a little on the jar.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

A week ago, the poor cretur was taken ill, and felt herself likely to become a mother, but the brutes in the house wouldn't pay no attention to her in that situation, but left her all to herself.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson