lo'd

A skipper don't lo'd his mem'ry with that sculch any more'n he'd try to find names for the hens in the deck-coop.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

Clementina said ingenuously, "Oh, she's walking with that English gentleman now -- that lo'd."

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

"There ha'n't but just two men in Europe behaved like gentlemen to me, and one is Mr. Hinkle, and the other is that lo'd; and between the two I ratha you'd have Mr. Hinkle; I don't know as I believe much in American guls marryin 'lo'ds, the best of' em."

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

"There ha'n't but just two men in Europe behaved like gentlemen to me, and one is Mr. Hinkle, and the other is that lo'd; and between the two I ratha you'd have Mr. Hinkle; I don't know as I believe much in American guls marryin 'lo'ds, the best of' em."

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

Mrs. Milray was tellin 'that he's what they call a pooa lo'd, and that he was carryin' on with the American girls like everything down there in Egypt last winta.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

He's the only one that's eva had the mannas to ask after me, except that lo'd.

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

Clementina said ingenuously, "Oh, she's walking with that English gentleman now -- that lo'd."

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

Mrs. Milray was tellin 'that he's what they call a pooa lo'd, and that he was carryin' on with the American girls like everything down there in Egypt last winta.

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

He's the only one that's eva had the mannas to ask after me, except that lo'd.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

For a 'that, I hae a haill side o' my hert saft til him: my father and his lo'd like brithers. '

Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864