consid'able

"You've put yourself out quite a consid'able for me," she acknowledged.

The Passing of Sister Barsett 1996

When he gits grumpy, which is pooty consid'able often, he's death on some on 'em, -- jest walks into 'em like chain-lightnin 'into a gooseberry-bush.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"Oh, consid'able -- consid'able," the old man agreed vaguely.

Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Annie Hamilton Donnell

"Wal, I've done consid'able at that sort of work, Sir."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

We might shoot things up consid'able, both of us, an 'when we got through there wouldn't be enough of us left to get back home with.

The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series Elliott Whitney

'T's wut I call bein' desput keerful, an 'sailin' pooty consid'able close to the wind.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

One wintry day since my return I was riding in a train on the New-York Central, when an undaunted herdsman, returning Westward, flushed with the sale of beeves, accosted me with the question, -- "Friend, yeou've travelled consid'able, and believe in the religion of Natur ', don't ye?"

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

Mass'r James is one o 'de' lect; and I'm clar dar's consid'able more o 'de' lect dan people tink.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

'T wa'n't none o 'yer sober perfumes nuther, but kind o' half-seas-over all the time, an 'pooty consid'able in the wind.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

"Wall, Chief," he drawled presently between puffs, "I ain't a-sayin 'yore not right, seein' as you've had consid'able more experience with petticoats than me; but one time I hearn a couple o 'scientific dudes a-talkin' about females and they was of the notion that sons gets their brains and their natures from their mammies."

Where the Sun Swings North Barrett Willoughby