clah

Or like "clah", rhymes with "blah", which is what I hope we don't say when he comes into a game.

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I'm clah to say I wuz 'stonished; but ahta class wuz ovvva, Bro' Moss tole me de

Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

'Scorted huh clah' crost de plantation befo 'evahbody's face.

The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

Co'nel -- dey burned Missus Caton's house clah to de groun '; de ol' Missus was in Richmond den, an 'de few niggers left jest natchally took to de woods.

Keith of the Border Randall Parrish 1890

Island untill Gibson arrived and assist him with his crew in geting his canoe up the rapid, when they were to join us on the oposite side at a small village of six houses of the Clah-clah'lahs where we halted for breakfast. in passing the river which is here about 400 yds. wide the rapidity of the currant was such that it boar us down a considerable distance notwithstanding we employed five oars. on entering one of these lodges, the natives offered us a sheepskin for sail, than which nothing could have been more acceptable except the animal itself. the skin of the head of the sheep with the horns remaining was cased in such manner as to fit the head of a man by whom it was woarn and highly prized as an ornament. we obtained this cap in exchange for a knife, and were compelled to give two Elkskins in exchange for the skin. this appeared to be the skin of a sheep not fully grown; the horns were about four inches long, celindric, smooth, black, erect and pointed; they rise from the middle of the forehead a little above the eyes. they offered us a second skin of a full grown sheep which was quite as large as that of a common deer. they discovered our anxity to purchase and in order to extort a great plrice declared that they prized it too much to dispose of it. in expectation of finding some others of a similar kind for sale among the natives of this neighbourhood I would not offer him

The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

I clah to goodness, I nevah did see sich ca'in's on. "

The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889