wo'k

"Ef youse mean de li'l gal with blue eyes an 'fluffy hair, she doan' wo'k heah no mo '."

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

Ah had to wo'k hard all the time every day in the week.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration

My father had to stay at his master's, Col. Jack Allen's and wo'k in the fields all day, but at night he would come to my mammy's cabin and stay all night, and go back to his master's, Col. Allen's fields the next mon'in.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

After breakfast ther boys all went off ter ther wo'k, and Aunt Sue went ter a neighbor's to borrer some bakin 'powder.

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

"Dem robbers was at deir wo'k again las 'night, down at de bank on de river an' one of dem was shooted bad an 'am in jail, so dey tell me down at de station."

The Hilltop Boys A Story of School Life Cyril Burleigh

Men think about theah wo'k and theah incomes and theah homes and theah wives and theah children, and that's _all_ they think about.

Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

Life without wo'k, o 'interest, o' fren's, o 'ambition, o' love -- that ain't livin '!

Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

I hadn't eaten fo 'two days, an' I couldn't get wo'k, an 'I couldn't beg.

Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907

"Ah got all Ah c'n do 'tendin' to mah own wo'k 'thout comin' over yander an 'hulpin' yo '--"

Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897

I don 'wan' nothin 'but w'at I wo'k fer, but I wants all er dat.

The Marrow of Tradition 1895