shtyle

"Look here, sonny, if ye don't move along, an 'have plenty of shtyle about it, I'll help ye to the lock-up -- so help me --!"

McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896 Various

There was flags an 'banners wavin' high, an 'dhress and shtyle were shown,

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

There was flags an 'banners wavin' high, an 'dhress and shtyle were shown,

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

"'Fetch my throlly!' sez I; 'my heart's sick in my ribs for a wink at anything wid the Quane's uniform on ut, Fetch my throlly, an' six av the jildiest men, and run me up in shtyle. '"

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

"And that is your shtyle of saluting a gintleman is it?" said Tim in some trepidation.

Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"Do you know what they are walking up and down the sand fur in that sassy shtyle?"

Adrift in the Wilds or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"It's a quaar being he is entirely, when it's meself that could barely git into the thicket, and he might have saved his hide by making a short thramp around, rather than plunging through in this shtyle."

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"And what's yer raison for acting in that shtyle, to as good a man as iver asked God's blessing on a sunny morning, and who wouldn't tread on one of yer corns, that is, if yer big feet isn't all corns, like a toad's back, as I suspict, from the manner in which ye leaps over the ground."

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

Do ye take this, bolt yer door, and if anybody comes poking in the room after I'm gone, just bore a hole through him, and then ax him if he ain't ashamed of himself to steal into a private apartment in that shtyle.

Brave Tom The Battle That Won Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"Girls night out, Shex and the Shitty shtyle Aaawhoo!"

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