s'arch

I believe Blent wanted to s'arch it himself for the treasure box.

Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box Alice B. Emerson

"Ef hit was me goin 'to s'arch for the murdered body of my true love I don't know as I could put foot befo' foot!"

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

Nor I can't send you out to s'arch for your sister, wi 'the knowledge that it'll surely end in her warmin' your little sit-upon ....

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Fact is, I'm off in s'arch of your nephew Phoby Geen, that has taken the _Fly_ round to St. Ives, unless I be greatly mistaken; and what's more, unless I be greatly mistaken, he means to lay information against Dan'l."

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Quite in a tricksy way he wormed it out o 'mother what a spy was, an' how the way to go to work was to s'arch his cupboards; an 'then quick as snuff he started' pon yours, not sayin 'a word to anybody.

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"Them home-folks o 'mine won't kem hyar ter s'arch fur me," he cried desperately, "kase I tole my mother ez how I war a-goin 'ter dust down the mounting ter Aunt Jerushy's house ez soon ez meet'n' war out an 'stay all night along o' her boys."

The Young Mountaineers Short Stories Mary Noailles Murfree 1886

Harvey, out in these woods, or is it yer ghost on the s'arch for

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

I sometimes thinks me own ghost is out on the s'arch without me body, an 'I shouldn't be surprised to maat it some day.

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"The Sioux spent the bitter part of the day in the s'arch, an 'meself an' siveral other savages has been looking iver since, and none of us have got so much as a scint of his shoe, bad luck to him."

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

"Tim, couldn't yees make the s'arch wid me?" asked Teddy, in a deeply earnest voice.

The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878