ro'd

'Tis not a ro'd proper but indistink like an 'wanderin'.

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

Now, Ah do call to mind there be a track to left, some way down t 'ro'd, as'll take' ee gentle and pleasant 'tween two gradely hummocks down into Harthborough.

Ambrotox and Limping Dick Oliver Fleming

And he'd howl down the ro'd in a big cloud of dust,

The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

"Eet ban de ro'd vat you saw de re," he explained, pointing his whip to the thoroughfare they were pursuing.

The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900

I'm goin 'to sue Gid for obstructin' the ro'd and smashin 'Nute's wagon, and then jumpin' out and leavin 'me to be run away with.

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

"I h'isted ye up out the ro'd, that was all; I sh'd have had to h'ist jest the same if ye'd be'n a critter or a lawg, takin 'up the hull ro'd the way ye did."

Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

I found him in the ro'd a piece back, with his velocipede tied up all over him.

Geoffrey Strong Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

There can be no doobt it was his father oor lord killt -- an 'as little' at efter he did it he gaed doon the braid ro'd to the deevil as fest's ever he cud rin.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

"Only," he added, drawing a step nearer, and speaking in a subdued confidential voice, "dinna lat yer harsie rin awa 'upo' the ro'd hame, for I sweir til ye, gien there be only trowth i 'the laws o' natur, he's no siller, nor onything like it --"

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

O 'the contrar', the storm was like a freenly cloak til's grief, for upo 'the ro'd he fell a greitin' an 'compleenin' an 'lamentin' lood, jeedgin 'nae doobt, gien he thoucht at a', he micht du as he likit wi 'naebody nigh.

Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864