imperance

This salute produced an irate look and a shake of his cane from Green, with a mutter of something about "imperance," and a wish that he had his big fighting foreman there to thrash him.

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Because when in public I speak, I'm subject to a good deal of imperance.

The Teetotal Society 1997

"None o 'yer imperance," said cook, stirring the contents of a large pan carefully.

Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn 1859

What do you think, but one of them had the imperance to tell me that he was allowed

The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

"Take care you don't _buy goose_, for your imperance, sir," cried old

Jacob Faithful Frederick Marryat 1820

At one time she would be as sweet as sugar, and the next, without any cause, she'd ` wonder at your imperance. '

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

At one time she would be as sweet as sugar, and the next, without any cause, she'd 'wonder at your imperance.'

Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

"Curse him imperance and him dam insurance," [290] as Mungo says in the farce.

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

Of heaven's great essence, found such imperance [69]

The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578

They had the imperance, sir, to 'suade those poor deluded niggers that they were born free, when they knowed they were born slaves.

Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is 1852