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  • Ef I don't work hard enough now, I 'd like to know, without havin' a boy raound raisin 'gineral Cain.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • Even the "gineral" observed it, and remarked with a sardonic smile --

    Twice Bought 1859

  • ‘Begorra, I’d be better plased.’ says the gineral, says he, ‘to take himself than the Duke iv

    The Purcell Papers 2003

  • 'In the Name av the Father,' sez he; thin he shtopped and looked round; 'and av the Holy Ghost,' sez he, and he shtopped ag'in; 'but where's the Son?' sez he, rising his wice; and begor, 't was like the day of gineral jedgment.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • I heard an Irishman of the "bloody Tinth," and a "darn good regiment, be jabbers," speak up, and say, "Faith, gineral, we'll take up a collection and buy you a batthery, be Jasus."

    "Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

  • But Mr. Lammeter beats 'em all for shapes; you see he holds his head like a sodger, and he isn't so cushiony as most o 'the oldish gentlefolks, -- they ran fat in gineral; -- and he's got

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various

  • Women's wages can't be expected to do more than feed and clothe 'em, as a gineral thing, with

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various

  • It's a four-legged gineral is Avenger, with the cunnin 'foresight of a Bonaparte and the cool judgment of a Wellington.'

    The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson

  • Gineral's mess, before he got to be a gineral, you know, bein 'so handy at all sorts of woman's work?

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • "'Twasn't for naught he got made a gineral," commented Mrs. O'Callaghan.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

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