tobac

• Johnson Negro about ye beginning of November last to receive a Hogsd of tobac, a negro called Jno. —  The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
• Others also begged for "tobac," and sugar, and generally got a little A surprising number of trappers and traders, returning to the United States with their stocks of peltry, camped near us from time to time. —  The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate
• He seemed in very good spirits, asked for "tobac," and rode along with us some distance--long enough to make a careful estimate of our value and our strength. —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888
• Observing Joe watching him as he puffed on his new pipe, he grinned, and spoke in broken English that was intelligible, and much of a surprise to the young man Paleface--tobac'--heap good Then, seeing that Joe made no effort to follow his brother's initiative, for Jim was fast asleep, he pointed to the recumbent figures and spoke again Ugh! —  The Spirit of the Border
• He seemed in very good spirits, asked for "tobac," and rode along with us some distance -- long enough to make —  Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888

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