cairds

All I know about Sculpin is, one night I went down there, and we got to playin 'cairds, and he acted green as a mess o' cowslops at fust, and then he cheated; and -- O, I can't, I can't tell the story.

Summerfield or, Life on a Farm Day Kellogg Lee

I aye eat and sup off that when ye an 'yir fowk's fummlin' wi 'yir cairds at the kirk.

St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

The tribes of gipsies, jockeys, or cairds, —for by all these denominations such banditti were known, —became few in number, and many were entirely rooted out.

Chapter VII 1917

"Wal, if you-all are afraid of the cairds, what will you bet on?" he asked, in disgust.

The Lone Star Ranger 1914

"I doubt, Francie, yer puir mither has but a heathen notion of the vairtue of the cairds!"

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

This difference of opinion produced a dispute between them, in the course of which my aunt Chance -- quite unconscious of having any superstitious feelings of her own -- actually set out the cards which prophesied happiness to me in my married life, and asked my mother how anybody but "a blinded heathen could be fule enough, after seeing those cairds, to believe in a dream!"

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

"I count seven cairds fra 'richt to left; and I humbly ask a blessing on what follows."

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

Proavidence to ask mair o 'the cairds than the cairds have tauld us noo.

The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English Egerton Castle 1889

'' Deed ye s 'get nae cairds here,' she said, pushing him aside.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Donald listened with much gravity to the account of their adventure; and answered with great composure to David's repeated inquiries, whether he could have suspected that the cairds had been lurking there, --- ` ` Inteed, Master Tavie, I might hae had some guess that they were there, or thereabout, though maybe I had nane.

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822