cle'r

In de fust place you ain't got none to cle'r, en in de second place yo 'ornery eye tole on you.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

In de fust place you ain't got none to cle'r, en in de second place yo 'ornery eye tole on you.

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

Then she grabbed up the basket and slammed it across the house and knocked the cat galley-west; and she said cle'r out and let her have some peace, and if we come bothering around her again betwixt that and dinner she'd skin us.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in 'up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

I know'd she wuz a fixin 'fer ter lead me inter dat quogmire down in de swamp, en I steer'd cle'r un' er.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

Sometimes w'en I git kotch wid emptiness in de pit er de stummuck, an 'git ter fairly honin' arter sump'n 'w'at got substance in it, den hit look like unto me dat I kin stan' flat-footed an 'make more cle'r money eatin' pies dan I could if I wuz ter sell de las 'one twix't dis an' Chrismus.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

Brer Buzzud, he keep on singin ', en Brer Fox he keep on layin' low, twel bimeby Brer Buzzud lit en 'gun ter cle'r' way de trash en truck fum de holler.

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Ole Brer Tarrypin put on he specks en cle'r up he th'oat, en den he 'low: --

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

I know'd she wuz a fixin 'fer ter lead me inter dat quogmire down in de swamp, en I steer'd cle'r an' er.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

He see um comin ', en w'en dey git up in hailin' distance, he sorter cle'r up he th'oat, he did, en holler out: --

Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878