ch'ice

My ch'ice is made, then, and this is how I ha 'fixed it up.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

"I ain't even hed a beau, yet," she sighed, "but the Boarder says that I will -- that red-headed girls ain't never old maids from ch'ice."

Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

And I ha 'got this ter say: that we ha' come to a pass when I ha 'got to make ch'ice twixt you and yer old woman.

A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

"You couldn't marry all of 'em what was in love with you, Bessie; but you've made a wise ch'ice --"

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

'Tain't for lack of ch'ice I've never tasted, but for lack of opportunity.

The Miller of Old Church 1911

Panama, an 'havin' acted mighty white since they've been in these diggin's, they be allowed next ch'ice o 'claims, to the extent o' one hundred an 'fifty feet along the main lode, on both side o' the Golden

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

Why, say, when you make your ch'ice you'll have to let the rest know right off; 'twould be cruelty to animals not to.

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

If I had my ch'ice of all the diseases in the calendar, that's the one I _wouldn't_ take.

Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

"Dis is fur de furst ch'ice ob de shuckers," and with that he throws the knife in the air calling out, "Cross or pile?" to which Isaac must make an answer.

The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war, 1901

Si says Slocum hed mostly first ch'ice, but tuck the wust every time.

The Durket Sperret, 1898