graftin

Penfield makes this kind o 'graftin' respectable and aboveboard and just about as honest as bein 'down in the Cotton Exchange! "

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

Teh 2nd wun wuz awn my left knee, an no graftin wuz dun.

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You be good and eat your grub, so it don't git vasted, and I promise you, tomorrow I go and hunt up strike headquarters, and give dem a check fer a tousand dollars, and if de damn graftin 'leaders don't hog it, dey all git someting to eat.

They Call Me Carpenter Upton Sinclair 1923

Them's the guys that do the most harm -- they make graftin 'so darned easy!

The Trail of the White Mule B. M. Bower 1905

He says they have aven a system of tilly-graftin 'that bates ours be miles.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

That hand of yours wasn't a tiny bit of a thing, and the fingers weren't all taperin 'like a simperin' miss from town, worked down in the mill of quality and got from graftin 'and graftin', like one of them roses from the flower-house at Mablethorpe

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

Looked like he was determined to say some'n nice about Dick, so he gave a few backhanded licks at the Republican party and the nigger-lovers of the North, an 'wound up by sayin' that the late lamented had been a stanch Democrat an 'worked at the poles as hard to overthrow graftin' and Yankee oppression as any man in the fair Southland.

Dixie Hart 1888

Well, the boys think the old minister's graftin 'has all succeeded about as well as that row, and they sarch no further.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887

They snicker at my graftin ', and I laugh in my sleeve, I guess, at their penetration.'

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887

If it had succeeded, I guess I would have been accused of graftin '.

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883