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Bennett had cleared a piece around the house, scratched him a few hills of corn betwixt the stumps the year before, and this spring was tryin 'to tear out the roots and small stumps with a pair o' steers and a tam-harrer.

Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods Alice B. Emerson

Wall, he went to work and I went over to Ezra Hoskins ', and when I got back home my place wuz a sight to behold; it looked like a harrer turned upside down.

Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories" 1903

I'm done -- reg'lar bowled over; and if ever there was a poor devil of a toad under a harrer, I've no hesitation in admitting that toad's me!

The Tinted Venus A Farcical Romance F. Anstey 1895

I'd like to run a plow an 'harrer over them puttin' greens of yours, as ye call them.

John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life Frederick Upham Adams 1890

She put on a red ribbon; but land! her neck looked 's if somebody 'd gone over it with a harrer!

The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

I went over to Ezra Hoskins ', and when I got back home my place wuz a sight to behold; it looked like a harrer turned upside down.

Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887

"Might keep off a harrer," said Smith, thoughtfully, "but bullets would go through it like they would through a bar o 'soap."

Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870

"Yon trout," said he, "was in a terrible frizz wi 'the hook gnawing his vitals, and he swum about among the reeds near the bank in a manner to harrer your feelings.

Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

"So she came up with a yaller lace parasol, abeout twelve foot in c'cumf'rence, sorter makin 'me think of a tud under a harrer; though, I sh'd have to say it afore the meetin'-house, she was dreadful purty-lookin', an 'blamed ef she didn't know it.

Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

"It looks queer to me," Mr. Kinney remarked, "that folks should want to come so far on purpose to harrer up their feelin's all over again.

A Touch of Sun and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892