skase

‘I have know’d strong men obleeged to make themselves uncommon skase for less.

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

I had wukked 'long wid Dave so much dat I knowed his tracks: he had a monst'us long foot, wid a holler instep, w'ich wuz sump'n skase 'mongs' black folks.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

I had wukked 'long wid Dave so much dat I knowed his tracks: he had a monst'us long foot, wid a holler instep, w'ich wuz sump'n skase 'mongs' black folks.

Dave's Neckliss 1889

W'en Sandy come back, Mars Marrabo gin 'im a dollar, en' lowed he wuz monst'us sorry fer ter break up de fambly, but de spekilater had gin 'im big boot, en times wuz hard en money skase, en so he wuz bleedst ter make de trade.

Po' Sandy 1888

But schools was skase in them air days, and, besides, book-larnin 'don't do no good to a woman.

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

Bless yo 'soul, honey, "continued the old man, brightening' up, "w'en you git ole ez me -- w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years -- de creeturs dat you can't talk wid 'll be mighty skase -- dey will dat.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef 'un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

You better b'leeve dat w'en Mr. Dog got a chance to make hisse'f skase he tuck it, en w'at der wuz lef 'un him went skaddlin' thoo de woods like hit wuz shot outen a muskit.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

Bless yo 'soul, honey, "continued the old man, brightening up," w'en you git ole ez me -- w'en you see w'at I sees, en year w'at I years -- de creeturs dat you can't talk wid'll be mighty skase -- dey will dat.

Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878

But schools was skase in them air days, and, besides, book-larnin 'don't do no good to a woman.

The Hoosier Schoolmaster Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 1871