fam'ly

You know I didn't want to come, an 'I guess your fam'ly ain't hankerin' to see me neither.

Chapter 1 2010

Man, I do not want this bloke digging into my fam'ly.

With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005

"Ma'am," he says in a undertone, "if a pound or so, which not bein 'a fam'ly man an' a good business at times, I have it to spare, would make matters straight, here it is."

Smethurstses 1995

"No sign of that; Mr. Rhoades was a good Freewill Baptist boy, an 'what time he didn't spend in church or with' is fam'ly 'e spent at work."

Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

Mah fust marster en missis wuz Amos en Sophia Holland en he made a will dat we slaves wuz all ter be kep 'among de fam'ly en I wuz heired fum one fam'ly ter' nother.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives Work Projects Administration

'Yas, zat was in var' sobair fam'ly -- in convent of nons. '

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various

Marster had his overseers 'house and give 'em slaves to cook for 'em and wait on 'em, but they never go anywhere with the fam'ly.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

But when a mother was cooking for her own fam'ly she put in them, and heart besides, and that was why men was allays telling about their mother's cooking.

Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

Marse Artie he wrote a long letter an 'all the things he got from mistis he give back to her fam'ly an' all his own things he give to his brother, an 'then he died.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

As it isn't no offspring of _ourn_ -- of the fam'ly I mean, Ma'am, in course;

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 9, 1891 Various