consarns

"Matter that consarns you and me more than any other two persons in the etarnal world!" said Bruce, with such energy of utterance as nothing-but rage could supply.

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

-- I-- wish theeäze vawk ood mine ther awn consarns an let I an Fanny alooäne.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

"Bet your life on it it's no joke; you're jest right Zeb, it's real down airnest; the fellow that rit that ain't one of your jokin 'consarns."

Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour

Dat ain't nuffin dat consarns yoh nohow, 'an' I goes home, an 'dat's all I know, sah.

That Mainwaring Affair

Well, I gives a scrape with my larboard foot, and a tug to my hair, when I gets to the door of _such_ a fine room above decks, all full o 'tables, an' chairs, an 'sofers, an' piangers, an 'them sort o' highflying consarns.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various

But things which was my own consarns was attracting my attention so hard I couldn't remember what it was I orter know about that name.

Danny's Own Story 1912

"I wish you'd mind your own consarns, and give me time," protested

Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

Many of us was your sincere frends, and thought certin parties amung us was fussin 'about you and meddlin' with your consarns intirely too much.

Abraham Lincoln Godfrey Rathbone Benson Charnwood 1904

"Though I'm damned if I see how it consarns _you_."

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

And then, sittiwated as you be, Mr. Crane, it's a turrible thing for your family to be without a head to superintend the domestic consarns and tend to the children -- to say nothin 'o' yerself, Mr. Crane.

Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900