perfession

Eradicate by name, and dat's my perfession -- eradicatin 'dirt.

Tom Swift and His Motor-Boat, or, the Rivals of Lake Carlopa Victor [pseud.] Appleton

I s'pose it's because starvation's got ter be a regeler perfession with 'em.

The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor

Tony Scollop's been and hired some ould hag av a gran'mother to shtep in an 'discredit the perfession.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

I gave up my flour and feed store and took to well-diggin 'as a perfession.

The Dude Wrangler Caroline Lockhart 1916

My father was one afore me an 'uncommon successful -- much looked up to in' is perfession, though a little too quick o 'th' trigger finger -- but 'e was took at last,' ung at Tyburn an 'gibbeted on Blackheath.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

Then, when he married Elmira Appleton, he had to go to work practising that perfession reg'lar, because he never learnt nothing about farming.

Danny's Own Story 1912

"There's not many like him in the medical perfession."

The Lovels of Arden 1875

Primrose Court, Great Queen Street, and my reg'lar perfession is a-sellin 'coffee "so airly in the mornin', "and I've got a darter as ain't quite so 'ansom as me, bein' the moral of her father as is over the water a-livin 'in the fine' Straley.

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

I lives in Primrose Court, Great Queen Street, an 'my reg'lar perfession is a-sellin' coffee "so airly in the mornin '," and I've got a darter as ain't quite so 'ansom as me, bein' the moral of her father. '

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

You are a lie-yer, Marse Alfred, and you know how it is yourself; and I beg your pardon, sir, for slighting the perfession; but when I was a little gal, I got my scare of lie-yers, and it has stuck to me like a kuckleburrow.

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872