thafe

"I'm thinking, sorr," he gave judgment, "ye had the rights of it. Seein 'as how th' thafe is German, ye'll not set eyes on him more -- for divil

The Firefly of France Marion Polk Angellotti 1936

"It'th betht to be on the thafe thide, Thir," said he.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 Various

Ugh! he's sure a divvle, all right, is that smooth-faced young thafe of the worrld.

Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel

"'I wud have opened it, but I heard th' captin's order not to disturb th 'charts atop av it,' sez I."'Ye would, ye thafe,' sez he.

Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate"

Ter say that aich ixpansionist was jist a murth'rin thafe;

Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The boys seeing that he was afraid of them began to raise the cry of thief, or, as they called it, thafe.

The Drummer's Coat 1896

"Is it the owld potgutted thafe iv a rayceiver that's in her?"

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

He's dead drunk, that's what he is; and I wonder he ain't drownded, too, lying with his nose in all thafe water sluicing round.

The Island Treasure 1887

And barrin 'him bein' the very thafe o 'the wurrld, it's a poor honest body he be.

Tropic Days 1887

"Arrah, sure, all's well that inds will!" said Mr McCarthy; "but I'm glad you weren't a desarter, as I thought you were; and I'm roight glad, too, that that thafe of a Moody has mit with his desarts at last!"

The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land 1887