coorses

We put up palashal goluf-coorses in the cimitries an 'what was wanst th' tomb iv Hung Chang, th 'gr-reat Tartar Impror, rose to th' dignity iv bein 'th' bunker guardin 'th' fifth green.

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Th 'explorer announces that he has changed th' names iv these wather-coorses to Smith,

Mr. Dooley Says Finley Peter Dunne 1901

"I tell you he never _was_ at home last night, and maybe it's yourself was helping him, Micky Lavery, to keep his bad coorses -- the slingein 'dirty blackguard that he is."

Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832

Frank, change your coorses, an 'mend your life, an' don't be the talk o 'the parish.

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

An ', hadn't he as good a right to get the law at his back as they have? an' to make it bring him through the same hard-hearted coorses that made him rich and keep us poor?

The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

"Margaret," said he, "you know that durin 'all my wild and sinful coorses, I always wore the lock of hair you gave me when we wor young next my heart -- my poor weak heart."

Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

"I only want to drive him into common sense, and the respectful feeling he ought to show to both you an 'me, Rosha," said Burke; "if he expects to have either luck or grace, or the blessing of God upon him, he'll change his coorses, an 'not keep breakin' my heart as he's doin '."

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

"We was 'way back o' the line at the time, at a place where ye'd expect to get a taste o 'rest; but what wid fancy attacks an' 'special coorses' (thim 's the divil an 'all!) there wasn't enough rest for an honest man to get into mischief.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 5, 1919 Various

Oh, if you'd bring the priest, an 'give up sich coorses, father dear, how happy we'd be, an' how happy yourself 'ud be! "

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831

God help him! the gommach, if he had sinse, and the fear o 'God before him, he'd not be sich a pace o' desate to sthrangers, and such a divil's limb wid ourselves: but he's young, an 'may see his evil coorses in time, wid the help o' God. "

The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831