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Examples
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"Because we don't give a good God damn about how the Yankees school their young, but they damn sure aren't going to rest until they tell us how to school our'n."
Picketts charges 2009
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"Because we don't give a good God damn about how the Yankees school their young, but they damn sure aren't going to rest until they tell us how to school our'n."
Picketts charges 2009
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"Because we don't give a good God damn about how the Yankees school their young, but they damn sure aren't going to rest until they tell us how to school our'n."
Picketts charges 2009
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This uppity black guy is going after our'n sexy white wimmen!
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But now, our'n was a great big one, had a morning glory horn — great big horn you know.
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"You sho'ly don't mean it comes to sixteen dollars ev'y week," said the woman, taking the cob pipe out for the first time, long enough to spit and wipe her mouth on the back of her hand, "an 'all in silver an' all our'n?" she asked.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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But still-hunt it was for our'n, 'n' at it we went for th 'next two days.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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All de other darky wimmens wore de black dresses and dey got hats from some dey white lady folks; jes 'as us mens got hats from our'n.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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The nig keers more fur his hum, so durned pore as it ar ', then ye or I does fur our'n.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I told Josiah that we would do fer you like as if you was our'n, but you must not talk, dearie.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days Margaret Penrose
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