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  • You draw up a paper -- bill o 'sale -- en put it way off yonder, down in de middle o Kaintuck somers, en sign some names to it, en say you'll sell me cheap' ca'se you's hard up; you'll find you ain't gwine to have no trouble.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • Hereby also the ancient use of somers and sumpter horses is in manner utterly relinquished, which causeth the trains of our princes in their progresses to shew far less than those of the kings of other nations.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • Sence mother died, which has be'n -- lem-me-see -- mother's be'n dead somers in the neighborhood o 'ten year.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • Our land doth yield no asses, and therefore we want the generation also of mules and somers, and therefore the most part of our carriages is made by these, which, remaining stoned, are either reserved for the cart or appointed to bear such burdens as are convenient for them.

    Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

  • Our land doth yield no asses, and therefore we want the generation also of mules and somers, and therefore the most part of our carriages is made by these, which, remaining stoned, are either reserved for the cart or appointed to bear such burdens as are convenient for them.

    Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909

  • Hereby also the ancient use of somers and sumpter horses is in manner utterly relinquished, which causeth the trains of our princes in their progresses to shew far less than those of the kings of other nations.

    Of Cattle Kept for Profit. Chapter XII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 8; 1587, Book III., Chapter 1 1909

  • I kind of hoped the boat would land somers, and we could skip ashore and not have to run the risk of this row, I was so scared of Bud Dixon, but she was an upper-river tub and there warn't no real chance of that.

    Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

  • He said Dummy said he belonged away off somers and used to be well off, but got busted by swindlers which he had trusted, and was poor now, and hadn't any way to make a living.

    Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

  • Well, me and Tom Sawyer had the spring fever, and had it bad, too; but it warn't any use to think about Tom trying to get away, because, as he said, his Aunt Polly wouldn't let him quit school and go traipsing off somers wasting time; so we was pretty blue.

    Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

  • Then Brace would make everybody believe Uncle Silas killed him and hid his body somers; and that would ruin Uncle Silas and drive HIM out of the country -- hang him, maybe; I dunno.

    Tom Sawyer, Detective 1896

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