bar'l

• “An 'I'll give you five dollahs an' a bar'l o 'co'n.”

  Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study

• “Don't you see dat picter-feller tryin 'to took you an' me an 'de bar'l?”

  Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

• “But my party wuzn't workin 'at contractin'; he wuz workin 'at contractors, an' he knew 'em, lock, stock, and bar'l.”

  The Henchman

• “By Blunt's Coast Pilot, young sir, I allude to a celebrated book, as big as a pork bar'l, that every skipper has in his locker, to guide him on his wanderin way -- ony me.”

  Lost in the Fog

• “Yass, sah, we's sottin 'on a bar'l of gunpowder.”

  The Mutineers

• “Whin he's had two sups o 'whiskey he belaves he's dhrunk a bar'l full.”

  Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature

• “When you get into one o 'them new houses, with a piazzer acrost the front, and plenty of windows, and a grass plot, and see Lucy washin' dishes at the little white sink with the hot and cold water runnin 'free out of silver fassets, and know you don't have to tote your drinkin'-water a block, and ketch what rain-water you can in a bar'l, you won't feel so gritty, Bill!”

  Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls

• “Dey wuz mighty glad ter do des like dis, kaz dey done seed Brer Wolf tushes, en Brer Fox red tongue, en dey huddle up in de broom-sage ez still ez a mouse in de flour bar'l.”

  The Book of Stories for the Story-teller

• “Lashnagar and she had certainly seen the "bar'l" -- a thirty-six gallon barrel being taken into that room.”

  Captivity

• “He's been at the bar'l," muttered Wullie, and with a cry she started forward.”

  Captivity

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