th'oo

'Twuz a right blowy sort o' night; de moon wuz jes 'risin', but de clouds wuz so big it didn 'shine' cep 'th'oo a crack now an' den.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

I gets th'oo wid 'dat man de jail folks sho' have to pen him up in a barrel to hol 'de leavin's.

Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

When dey hed tied dey hosses, de urr gent'mens went up to whar Mr. Gordon wuz, an 'arfter some chattin' Mr. Hennin step 'off 'bout fur ez 'cross dis road, or mebbe it mout be a little furder; an' den I seed 'em th'oo de bushes loadin 'de pistils, an' talk a little while; an 'den Marse Chan an' ole Cun'l

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

When I look '' roun ', de roan wuz layin' dyah by me, stone dead, wid a cannon-ball gone 'mos' th'oo him, an 'our men hed done swep' dem on t'urr side from de top o 'de hill.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

He call me in de room an 'made me tole' im all 'bout it, an 'when I got th'oo he gi' me five dollars an 'a pyar of breeches.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Yo 'see, he had find Ham Fisher done fall down in de smoke right by the ker'ige-hoss' stalls, whar he sont him, an 'he hed to tote' im back in his arms th'oo de fire what hed done cotch de front part o 'de stable, and to keep de flame from gittin' down

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

Every Wednesday and Saturday Andrew Jackson Jefferson, whose name was as queer a combination as himself, for he seemed to be about half _horse_, so wonderful was his understanding of those animals, and so more than wonderful _theirs_ of him, took his "yo'ng sem'nary ladies a-gallopin 'th'oo de windin's ob de kentry roads," proud as a Drum Major of his charges.

A Dixie School Girl

But I seed dem gwine th'oo de drawers, an 'poundin on the floohs, seh.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott

Den and dere I kilt him, and de Sperrit passed th'oo me sayin ':' You is meaner dan dat snake; you kilt him and he hadn't even bit you. '

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

His face 'twould light up whenever she come into chu'ch, or anywhere, jes 'like de sun hed come th'oo a chink on it suddenly.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels