varsal

Yea, the servants persisted that they had heard him hold conversations in the library, when every varsal soul in the family were gone to bed; and that he spent the night in watching for bogles, and the morning in sleeping in his bed, when he should have been heading the hounds like a true Osbaldistone.

Rob Roy 2005

You knows as how the witches in Wales fly upon broom-sticks: but here was flying without any broom-stick, or thing in the varsal world, and firing of pistols in the air, and blowing of trumpets, and swinging, and rolling of wheel-barrows upon a wire

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

I'm McCloskey, and you are Slippery George -- an animal that's known over the 'varsal world as a

The Garies and Their Friends Frank J. Webb

Yea, the servants persisted that they had heard him hold conversations in the library, when every varsal soul in the family were gone to bed; and that he spent the night in watching for bogles, and the morning in sleeping in his bed, when he should have been heading the hounds like a true Osbaldistone.

Rob Roy 1887

I assure you there has been some pains taken in my education, although I can neither sew a tucker, nor work cross-stitch, nor make a pudding, nor --- as the vicar's fat wife, with as much truth as elegance, good-will, and politeness, was pleased to say in my behalf --- do any other useful thing in the varsal world. ''

Rob Roy 1887

For Bill was a man after her own heart; and she often said that "with fair play she sentimentally allowed her Bill could lick ary a man in the 'varsal world, and his weight in wild cats to boot."

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887

Now, sartin I'd a said that missis would a scoured the varsal world after Lizy.

The Christian Slave: A Drama 1855

"Now, sartin I'd a said that Missis would a scoured the varsal world after Lizy," added Sam, thoughtfully.

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853

"Now, sartin I'd a said that Missis would a scoured the varsal world after Lizy," added Sam, thoughtfully.

Uncle Tom's cabin, or Life among the lowly 1852

“Yes, I did mention them; they are rising in France, Germany and England; they are leagued with the Jacobins on both sides of the water, and threaten the destruction of all this 'varsal world.”

Margaret 1851