ag'inst

"Begorrah, the joke's too much ag'inst meself, sor, for me to be afther tillin 'the story too often!"

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

I must have hit my head ag'inst a boat, for when they took me out it was for dead.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

I s'pose you've bet some more money ag'inst your own school team, and want to see it beat.

Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

Set a naught ag'inst dat which is one and you has ten; set up another naught dar and you has a hundred.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

And when you git to the top of it you will think that you have run up ag'inst a cliff, and there ain't no gettin 'out of it without goin' back.

A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts Nicholas Carter

So you see what th 'old Seventh was up ag'inst, boys.

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

I was with Reno, an 'I saw personal what he was up ag'inst.

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

"He was shorely sot ag'inst havin '' is neck bruk, an ', arter all, thet's jest what he got."

Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

"I don't hold myself up as no defender o 'Injuns," the old puncher went on calmly, "but I've had a bit o 'truck with 'em, fer an' ag'inst, I'm some judge of 'em, an 'I reck'n this one c'n stay right here."

Injun and Whitey to the Rescue William S. Hart

This reprehensible practice is known familiarly in Washington as "bucking ag'inst the sideboard," and is thought by some to be the safest mode of doing business at bank.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various