c'u'd

"General" declared to be as well as "a feller c'u'd expect, considerin 'things, more or less!"

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

The terrible malady attacked me w'en I war an infant prodigy, an 'I've nevyer yit see'd thet time when I c'u'd resist the temptation an' coldly say 'nix' w'en a brother pilgrim volunteered ter make a liberal dispensation uv grub, terbarker, or bug-juice.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

O Lord! seems as ef I c'u'd swim through this sea to

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

There's old long-eared Lize that he's dead stuck on -- if he c'u'd write he'd be composin 'a sonnet to her ears, like poets do to their lady love's -- callin' them Star Pointers of a Greater Hope, I reck'n, an 'all that.

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

Oh, chile, ef ye knew how dis ole heart felt ter hear ye say dem words! ef ye only c'u'd know!

Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord

Youse c'u'd have knocked me down wit 'a bit of poiper when I see him.

The Gem Collector 1928

Marthy's a-sittin 'there with Jed in the hammick, and they're a-holdin' on their lap the doggondest best soothin 'syrup f'r man and wife that any doctor c'u'd perscribe ....

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

"We c'u'd make shift well enough with the things we had whin I was a lad," Old Dalton had often said to those who talked to him of the fine things men were inventing -- the time-savers, space-savers, work-savers;

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

"No mortal man c'u'd git to 'em through them woods naow."

Tom Slade at Temple Camp Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

Thin Trevison swings his gun on me, an 'I c'u'd feel me knees knockin' together.

'Firebrand' Trevison Charles Alden Seltzer 1908