thracks

Must have used thim himsilf tu make thim thracks wid -- early in th 'mornin' -- behfure he met up wid us on th 'thrail.

The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall

The Father wint out walkin 'to the other side of the thracks to see the Widow McCabe's Jacky about servin'

Charred Wood Francis Clement Kelley 1909

An 'thin he's put undher bonds to keep the peace, an' they sind him out west iv th 'thracks; an' I move into th 'house, an' tear out th 'front an' start a faro bank.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'I'm goin' over f'r to stand guard in th 'thracks,' says th 'la-ad.

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'Snakes,' I says, 'get along,' says I. 'I want ye'er house, an' ye best move out west iv th 'thracks, an' dig a hole f'r ye'ersilf, 'I says.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

But las 'Friday ev'nin', lo an 'behold, whin th' r-road was crowded with people fr'm th 'brick-yards an' th 'gas-house an' th 'mills, who shud come ridin' along be th 'thracks, bumpin' an 'holdin' on, but Molly Donahue?

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

"An ', as he goes down th' sthreet, he hears a band play an 'sees a procission headed be a calceem light; an', in a carredge, with his plug hat in his hand an 'his di'mond makin' th 'calceem look like a piece iv punk in a smoke-house, is Flannigan, payin' his first visit this side iv th 'thracks."

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

The sthreet-car thracks got so soft they spread all over th 'sthreet, an' th 'river run dhry.

Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

An 'I've knowed th' worst villyuns on earth that'd die in their thracks to save a stranger's child fr'm injury.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Wid the dust-thracks they thramp into roads glamin’ in at it, off went a crack,

A Curlew's Call 1895