My mother's not afraid of you Jest a line on a postal--ud bring the Old Man on a special.— The Fighting Shepherdess
When I scrambled off the top of the old-fashioned coach, and before I had time to shake the alkali dust from my clothes, or moisten my dry and cracked lips, a typical western bully approached me roaring the verses of a song with which he evidently intended to terrify me He blowed into Lanigan swinging a gun A new one A blue one A colt’s forty-one An’ swearing Declaring Red Rivers ’ud run Down Alkali Valley An’ oceans of gore ud wash sudden death On the sage brush shore An’ he shot a big hole He got no further with the song.— The Black Wolf Pack
Thereafter Kanauj declined in importance, though still the capital of a Rajput dynasty, and the final sack by Shihab-ud-Din in A.D. 1194 reduced it to desolation and insignificance for ever.— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
They make prayers to their club once a year, so that it may not cause them serious injury when they strike themselves with it The Jalalias are named after their founder, Jalal-ud-din of Bokhara, and have a horse-whip as their badge, with which they sometimes strike themselves on the hands and feet.— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
And mother's bound to hear us; she sleeps so lightly when I'm out DAPHNE Gaping violently._] Oh-h-h-h JIMMIE Clapping her hand over DAPHNE'S mouth._] Manners FULKERSON Depositing his overcoat and hat upon the fauteuil-stool._] One 'ud 'magine th' working-man'sh th' on'y pershon who ever does day'sh work!— The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts

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