bekaise

“That's a fib,” said Sneak, “bekaise a dead man can't be a dying.”

Wild Western Scenes Jones, John Beauchamp 1875

It's locked; bekaise he keeps all his money there. '

Four Canadian Highwaymen 1873

He met Haco's steady frown with a calm and equally steady gaze of his clear grey eyes; and then, relaxing into a smile, nodded familiarly, and inquired if the weather was fine up there, bekaise, judgin 'from his, (Haco's), face he would be inclined to think it must be raither cowld!

Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn 1859

I'm koorius about this, bekaise I've got a receipt for that same that's infallerable, as his Riverence says.

The Lighthouse 1859

"Just bekaise I'm hungry," replied the seaman, with a smile.

The Pirate City An Algerine Tale 1859

I'm koorius about this, bekaise I've got a receipt for that same that's infallerable, as his Riverence says.

The Lighthouse 1859

I don't bear no ill-will to 'ee, darlint, bekaise o' the evil deeds o 'yer forefathers.

The Island Queen 1859

Well, these chaps never works; they'll come here and eat us out of house and home, and all bekaise the Cappin haint got a good sensible woman to back me when I wants her, and keep the Cappin in order.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

I don't see bekaise a woman's a woman that she should'nt l'arn to be sensible like us men.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

The devil you air! and bekaise you air a born devil, and bekaise, jest now, I'm your master, and kin make you work for me, I'll make my child a lady of fortin '.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852