sp'iled

"Now tell cm what's needed to clarify the new season before it's sp'iled, dearie,"

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Nature started out to make him a miser and then sp'iled the job, so's he was neither one thing nor the other.

Aunt Jane of Kentucky Eliza Calvert Hall

Gracie -- she was a little thing then, and, bein 'the youngest, a little sassy and sp'iled, mebbe -- had been on a trip to the city, and she'd brought her ma a present of a shoe-buttoner with a handle a full foot long.

Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 Various

Proclamation, runnin 'like this:' Five hundred dollars reward for capture and return of one Sadler, that committed humiliatin 'assault on one Hillary, and sp'iled the stomachs and b'iled the skins of patriotic municipal guardsmen, which shameful person is more'n six feet of iniquity, and his features homely beyond belief, complexion dilapidated, and conscience dyspeptic.'

The Belted Seas Arthur Willis Colton

"I've tasted both," said the 'cello-player, "but they niver sp'iled my mouth for a glass of honest beer."

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

'That's all, Mr. Charles, except the old sash you used to play with, which I sp'iled from the Hessian officer, the

The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 Henry C. Watson

Wal, uv course, my looks wuz sp'iled, -- fur I'd been ez pretty'z Emerline wuz, -- you wuz pretty once,

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Lord bless you, so's he got planted before he sp'iled, he was perfectly satisfied; said his relations meant well, perfectly well, but all them preparations was bound to delay the thing more or less, and he didn't wish to be kept layin 'around.

Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

I've had my pleasant trespasses in the past, but when I look backward on 'em now, to save my life, I can't remember anything about 'em but some small painful mishap that al'ays went along with 'em an 'sp'iled the pleasure.

The Miller of Old Church 1911

I've had my pleasant trespasses in the past, but when I look backward on 'em now, to save my life, I can't remember anything about 'em but some small painful mishap that al'ays went along with 'em an 'sp'iled the pleasure.

The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909