bus'ness

But bus'ness increased so that some were neglected,

The Cooper o' Dundee 1953

He's slo 'mouthed as I'm tellin' you, but he's gittin 'over them spells an' I'm gwinter c'wore him if I hafter go into the queensware bus'ness on my own hook.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Since 'tis not five hours bus'ness to Ride thither,

The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne

_ That's not my bus'ness; come, tell me, where's the Nurse?

The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne

_ Sister, pray stay, for I have bus'ness with you.

The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne

Come, leave your Fooling, I have bus'ness for you;

The Fatal Jealousie (1673) Henry Nevil Payne

I tell yer what it is, it ain't a very disagreeable piece of bus'ness for me to git married to Melindy

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

Dey minds dere bus'ness, an 'dey works an' dey plays de same, an 'dey had dere share in dat fust Chris'mus when de li'l' Lordie was born – same as de folks.

This Way to Christmas 1916

"There bein 'no other bus'ness before the meetin'," shouted red-shirt,

Gold Seekers of '49 Charles H. [Illustrator] Stephens 1911

It isn't my reg'lar line, the show bus'ness, but it produced the necessary 'ham and' every day and the excelsior sleep inviter every night, so -- but never mind that.

Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907