postle

You see I've got a cousin what reads a sight, and one day he says to me, 'Nat, in a book I see somethin' about a set of spoons with a 'postle's head on each of

Moods Louisa May Alcott 1860

Take a postle of damsons and good ripe apples, being pared and cut into quarters, put them into an earthen pot with a little whole cinamon, slic't ginger, and sugar, bake them and being cold strain them with some rose-water, and boil the stuff thick, _&c.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

Fuddermore, in de 'pistle ob de' postle, Isaiah, he say, 'Be a clean vessel ob de Lawd God', and I gonna find out de truf and prove my position 'fore dese people.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

De 'postle then tell de recording angel to see if him could find dat deed.

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

In a work of Middleton, entitled "The Chaste Maid of Cheapside", one of the characters inquires, "What has he given her?" to which another replies, "A faire high standing cup, and two great 'postle spoons, one of them gilt."

Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

"Poo! poo!" said Captain Pharo, turning the whole flower indifferently to his questioner, and drawing a match with a slight, genteel uplifting of the leg; "I smoke, as the 'postle says, on all' ccasions t 'all men, in season an' outer season, an '' specially when I'm a darn min 'ter."

Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

I would have more hopes of ye if you'd stood up fair and square for the bad things you believe in; there'd be some chance of convertin 'you to righteousness; but you're like the Lacedamonians the' postle talks of.

The Day of The Cyclone 1888

"Yes, darlin ', dat's it! an' de res 'dat comes after, whar de' postle say he 'suaded dat deff nor nuffin else cayn't separate God's chillen from de love ob Christ."

The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket Martha Finley 1868

Guess they don't often see such a 'postle as that in these diggins.

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Guess they don't often see such a 'postle as that in these diggins.

The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830