cadies

Many “cadies” and “quoddys” are to be found in the place names of northern New England and eastern Canada.12 Both ideas are correct, but the first had priority.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

Many “cadies” and “quoddys” are to be found in the place names of northern New England and eastern Canada.12 Both ideas are correct, but the first had priority.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

'He might have left it to the cadies of the toon for drink.'

Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

All cadies are rich: they live by selling themselves to the highest bidder.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

Then he’s such a steady fellow—some of them are always changing their alehouses, so that they have twenty cadies sweating after them like the bareheaded captains traversing the taverns of East-Cheap in search of Sir John Falstaff.

Chapter XXXIX 1917

All Edinburgh men and boys know that when sedan-chairs were discontinued, the old cadies sank into ruinous poverty, and became synonymous with roughs.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

The gentry are no doubt philosophers enough to bring up their bairns like sheep to the slaughter, and dispatch them as cadies to Bengal and the Cape of Good Hope, as soon as they are grown up; when, lo and behold! the first news they hear of them is in a letter, sealed with black wax, telling how they died of the liver complaint, and were buried by six blacks two hours after.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

The gentry are no doubt philosophers enough to bring up their bairns like sheep to the slaughter, and dispatch them as cadies to Bengal and the Cape of Good Hope, as soon as they are grown up; when, lo and behold! the first news they hear of them is in a letter, sealed with black wax, telling how they died of the liver complaint, and were buried by six blacks two hours after.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Then he's such a steady fellow; some of them are always changing their ale-houses, so that they have twenty cadies sweating after them, like the bare-headed captains traversing the taverns of Eastcheap in search of Sir John Falstaff.

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

Then he's such a steady fellow; some of them are always changing their ale-houses, so that they have twenty cadies sweating after them, like the bare-headed captains traversing the taverns of Eastcheap in search of Sir John Falstaff.

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801