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  • Hegarty, that was shofer to Sir John at Rathcullen, and a decent boy with one leg and he after coming back from the war.

    Captain Jim Mary Grant Bruce 1918

  • Maybe you've settled a dinner bill for three and a feed for the shofer at the Clover Blossom; but not with a ten-spot, eh?

    Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • A shofer -- I b'lieve that's what they call the tribe -- was at the helm of it, and on the back seat, lollin 'luxurious against the upholstery, was a man and

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • He was young Stumpton's automobile skipper-shover, or shofer, or somethin 'they called him.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Judgin 'by the sharp language that drifted out through the door, 'twas plain that the shofer was superintendin' all right.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "The shofer opens the door of the after cockpit of the machine, and the man gets out fust, treadin 'gingerly but grand, as if he was doin' the ground a condescension by steppin 'on it.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "They climbed into the cockpit, the shofer took the helm, and they was ready to start.

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • I tell yo 'w'at, Miss Betty, I's gwine tuh be yo' shofer all right, en I's gwine tuh be a mighty good one, too. "

    Dorothy's Triumph Evelyn Raymond 1876

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