sassage

As they crossed each other one o 'the Rooshans pulls a bit o' sassage out of his pocket and holds it up to the foremost Tartar (a great ugly-lookin 'bruiser with one eye), and says to him, chaffin' like, "Hollo, Mourad! d'ye want a bit o 'grease to make yer beard grow?"

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Various

Ef thet harum scarum devul hain't got my nit drawurs on fur tites, an 'they fit him like sassage guts that's too big fur the fillin'.

Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden

But put ’longside pork sassage it takes a backward stan’;

Hog Meat by Daniel Webster Davis 1922

She'll know better some day, I hope; and if she don't -- well, I'm only a side-issue in her life, anyhow, hove in by accident, like the section of dog collar in the sassage.

Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

But put 'longside pork sassage it takes a backward stan';

The Book of American Negro Poetry James Weldon Johnson 1904

Ole Loge he looked foolish; the yearlin 'at home had gnawed them saddle skirts into sassage meat long ago.

The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895

No, there wa'n't a thing the matter with her, except she ate some sassage-meat, an 'had a little faint turn.

Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891

And the buildin 'wuz seemin'ly all wrought of white marble, with statutes, and colonnades, and towers, and everything else for its comfort, and inside wuz every machine that wuz ever made or thought on, from a sassage-cutter and apple-parer to a steam engine in full blast.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

Gabriel's horn blows; and I would go to jail or to Jericho; and before I would give testimony agin my dear young Mistiss's poor friendless gal, I would chaw my tongue into sassage meat.

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

I tell her ef she 'd a good sassage for breakfast of a cold mornin', with a hearty bit o 'mince-pie, and a cup o' strong coffee, 't would kind o 'set her up for the day; but, somehow, she don't git no nourishment from her food.

Oldtown Folks 1869