bu'sted

The glass cans rolled down, and bu'sted as they fell, and the peaches just went all over the depot platform there, and when the old gentleman come a-tearing along, he never did a thing but slip up on them peaches and fall all over himself.

A Special Providence 1995

She examined it and said, "H'm -- like enough de bank's bu'sted."

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

Then and thar I bu'sted out into shouts of joy and songs of praise; I magnified the

Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman

If they were telling the truth I realized that labor's gall bladder had done bu'sted and we didn't have long to live.

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

The white man told him it meant that he "had done bu'sted his gall bladder and didn't have long to live."

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

Ask too often, and one day when you really need a kindness you'll find the Bank o 'Good Hope bu'sted!

The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

Say, it was the liveliest French prayin 'I ever saw; for Heiney is rockin' back and forth, his pop eyes leakin 'brine, and the polly-voo conversation is bubblin' out of him like water out of a bu'sted fire hydrant.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

"Some one bu'sted him with a 'ax most vastly," he muttered.

A Virginia Scout Hugh Pendexter 1907

But when I turned that corner there was nobody in sight, although the bu'sted wash-bench, with a cranberry crate propping up its lame end, was shaking a little, as if some one had set on it recent.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

There he is, stretched out on the wet turf, his eyelids flutterin ', his breath comin' fast, and his two hands huggin 'tight what's left of that bu'sted paper bag, right up against the front of his preacher's vest.

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907