cl'ar

'Taint the first time I've done it, an' figured so's to keep you cl'ar.

Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

That's a short cut to the B-line, else ye'd have to go cl'ar back to the fillin 'station, then over to Adot and back across another bridge to git thar.

David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story George S. Harney

Knowing what I do, I can't jail either o 'them chaps with a cl'ar conscience.

The Man Thou Gavest

But once Nella-Rose came totin 'up here on a cl'ar, moonlight evenin' with somethin 'under her little, old shawl.

The Man Thou Gavest

In sum way he clim 'ober de yawd fence an' got cl'ar

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

Den, befo 'I could get 'em loosen' dat hant jist lif 'his hoof -- yas ma'am, dat was a hoof, not no man's foot -- an' I 'clar cross ma heart he done hist me froo dat do' an 'cl'ar down dem stairs.

A Dixie School Girl

I freed my mind on that last night; I made myself cl'ar; an 'that's the one pledge I ax for.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

And I'll fetch him round up the holler, jist as you say too, and round about till I strike the snuggery, jist the same way; for thar's the way you show judgematical, and I'm cl'ar of your way of thinking.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

"I know him, -- he's cl'ar grit, -- he'll die in the ashes; and we won't git the dispatch."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

Ef you'uns put 'im in jail he mought' scape, and aryhow we don't know but sum smart lawyers might cl'ar 'im ur git a light sentence for' im.

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick