Thanksgivin

"Well, this here has ben the thankfulles 'Thanksgivin' I ever seen, and I hope the good Lord will spar 'us all for yet a few more."

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

When Mr. Washington had with difficulty reined in his horses and asked him what he wanted the old man said breathlessly, "I'se got a tirkey for yo 'Thanksgivin'!"

Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

'Yes,' says I, 'but think o' Thanksgivin 'times an' funerals; she 's our relation, an 'we 've got to own her.'

The Bowden Reunion 1910

Three hundred an ''leven days a year to use for themselves, an' Sundays an 'Christmas an' Thanksgivin 'to give away looks to me a rill fair division.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

An 'I says to myself:' God give me to live in a little bit of a place where we've all got enough to get along on, an 'Thanksgivin' finds us all in health.

Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906

'Yes,' says I, 'but think o' Thanksgivin 'times an' funerals; she's our relation, an 'we've got to own her.'

The Country of the Pointed Firs Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

The meetin'-house is full, for everybody goes to meetin 'Thanksgivin' day.

A Little Book of Profitable Tales Eugene Field 1872

Eleven year ago it was, come nex 'Thanksgivin' time.

A Mortal Antipathy: first opening of the new portfolio Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Eleven year ago it was, come nex 'Thanksgivin' time.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

"It does seem dreadful heathenish for nobody to go to meetin 'Thanksgivin' Day," said she; "an 'we ain't even heard the proclamation read, neither.

Young Lucretia and Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891