int'rest

"You show your int'rest in this sittin 'room fire, son," observed Mr. Day.

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

"Nary a politic -- but I'm d---- d ef th 'critters doan't larn 'em sumhow; the' knows 'bout as much uv what's goin 'on as I du -- but plantin arn't politics; its bisness, an' they've more int'rest in it nor I hev, 'cause they've sixteen mouths ter feed agin my four."

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

No man orter ter hev more'n twenty on 'em -- he can't look arter no more himself, an 'it's agin natur' ter set a feller over 'em what han't no int'rest in 'cm, an' no feelin 'fur 'em, an' who'll drive 'em round like brutes.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Hit whetted my int'rest; I prodded ag'in, en with results.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

The 'knows 'bout as much uv what's goin' on as I du; but plantin 'arn't politics, it's bisness, an' they've more int'rest in it nor I hev,

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

With fawning and flatt'ring for int'rest and places;

Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

People never took much int'rest in books and noospapers before in Poketown.

Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long

So because 'a was so owld an 'terrible palchy, an' hadn 'got nowan to taake no int'rest in un, through never havin' took no int'rest in nowan, they was obliged to put un up to Maddern Union; an 'there 'a lingered, owld an' toatlish, [K] 'tell 'a died at laast a lone owld man.

Drolls From Shadowland

"We're talking of a chance to put your money where it'll get more than savings bank int'rest," he said, resolved that Joel should not monopolize every topic of conversation.

Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Harriet L. Smith

The int'rest en costs runs hit to forty-two hundred.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney