stren'th

"If you'd ever had the ager, what wid the pain in your bones an 'the faver in your blood, you'd be likely to cry -- whin you had the stren'th."

What Two Children Did Charlotte E. Chittenden

"Marster in hebben, ef I only had my stren'th!" muttered Zenas as she went on.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

Ever sence you got that fool notion in yo 'head that Creed and Huldy was man and wife, he's been goin' down in his mind about as fast as his stren'th come up.

Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

I'd like to have my stren'th and have the handling of you, Janice Day.

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

Twice he done it, while by main stren'th I held his father to the enjoyments of a two-dollar orchestra chair.

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

I like to see 'em hairy, that-a-way; it's a sign of stren'th.

Going Some Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

If I had the stren'th, I'd haul you out of this keeridge and I'd hammer you meller, David Langston.

The Harvester 1911

But it seems to me thet a man o 'yore standin' an 'yore stren'th o' mind would 'a' took some nice pious old lady like Mis 'Gibbs, f' instance, thet has done quilted all her life away nearly, an 'won't accept no home thet she can't earn.

In Simpkinsville : character tales, 1897

"Stren'th of mind is all right, but stren'th of fingers is better still."

Wild Youth, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

I'm not much of a murd'ring man meself -- I haven't the stren'th with me fingers, but there's manny a time I'd like to do what Li Choo done ....

Wild Youth, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897