swape

"Och! hinny, and how can I swape the floor without a brum?" said

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

"If I was to swape till I fell prostitute, I'd niver git it clane."

Explorers of the Dawn Mazo De la Roche 1920

Wid Bobs an 'a few three-year-olds, I'd swape any army av the earth into a towel, an' throw it away aftherwards.

Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

Bobs an 'a few three-year-olds, I'd swape any army av the earth into a towel, an' throw it away aftherward.

Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

First, comes a great big loaded automobile drivin 'up, and stopped in front with a flourish an' out hops as nice an 'nate a lookin' lad as ever you clapped your eyes on, an 'up he comes to me an' off goes his hat with a swape, an 'he hands me that bundle an' he says: 'Here's something Miss

Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

"An 'you're a dirty low swape av a Dutchman to let that woman av yours use a native wor-rud in the captain's hearin'," and Deasy banged his fellow-trader between the eyes, as at the same moment Manogi and

Rodman The Boatsteerer And Other Stories 1898 Louis Becke 1884

"Why, don't you know, Patsy," replied his friend, "that it manes our party have made a clane swape of the cowld-wather men?"

From Wealth to Poverty Austin Potter 1877

"Bedad," she said aloud, "to-morrer I'll clane thim lamp-chimbleys and swape the bidrooms."

The Girl at Cobhurst Frank Richard Stockton 1868

Tyne watermen are called, manage with great dexterity; the vessel being guided by the aid of the “swape,” or great oar, which is used as a kind of rudder at the stern of the vessel.

Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

-- the divil swape yourself and your tongs, 'says I,' I don't want

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885