shadder

Say, th '_worter_ in the shadder -- _shadder_ in the _worter_!

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

Say; th '_worter_ in the shadder -- _shadder_ in the _worter!

Riley Child-Rhymes James Whitcomb Riley 1882

I'll be a 'shadder' of my former self if this early rising stunt is to be my regular medicine. "

Bob Hunt in Canada George W. Orton 1915

A heap o' sun an' shadder, an' ye sometimes have t' roam

In Memory of a House Fathorse 2008

But when I come up when red cow was sick at four in the morning, or may be earlier there was always a light in her winder, and the shadder of her face agin the blind.

Red Pottage 2004

Though worn out, he managed to keep his sense of humor about his appearance; when somebody told him he was “thin as a shad,” he responded—in an atrocious pun—that he looked even “worse—as thin as a shadder.”

LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001

Though worn out, he managed to keep his sense of humor about his appearance; when somebody told him he was “thin as a shad,” he responded—in an atrocious pun—that he looked even “worse—as thin as a shadder.”

LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001

Though worn out, he managed to keep his sense of humor about his appearance; when somebody told him he was “thin as a shad,” he responded—in an atrocious pun—that he looked even “worse—as thin as a shadder.”

LINCOLN AT HOME David Herbert Donald 2001

I've heard it said, an 'it allays creeped me cold all over, that there was somethin' come an 'lived with 'em -- a kind o' black shadder, a cobweb kind o 'a man-shape that followed 'em about the house an' made a third to them; but they got hardened to it theirselves, only they was afraid 'twould follow if they went anywheres from home.

In Dark New England Days 1996

Divine is pronounced, de wine, and Valley of the Shadow of Death is, walley o 'the shadder o' death.

I Bid You Goodnight 1996