Hant

He was cut in two by the saw mill and after his funeral whenever anyone pass his house at night that could hear his "hant" going ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Does not that word _hantu_, meaning in Malay an evil spirit, have some obscure connection with our American negro "hant," a goblin or ghost? ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)

She wrapped her head in the blanket -- a "hant" that cursed and trampled like cattle was too awful! ❋ Unknown (1898)

If Hannah could adduce a "hant," all the world would support her against Si and the plowed graveyard and desecrated gravestones. ❋ Unknown (1898)

The awfulness of going alone into the room where the "hant" had rocked in the chairs, and where all day yesterday the corpse had lain -- and the more mundane terror of having a hand in the division of the Durket property shook her being to its foundations, for the Durkets were fierce and reckless. ❋ Unknown (1898)

It's fascinating -- I haven't heard a good 'hant' yarn since old Mammy Chloe died, back at Meadow Green. " ❋ Paul Dickey (1909)

Note 42: "Disu sälig swester gelernet nie latin noch schriben vnd schreib doch die vier passion in tútsch mit ir hant." ❋ Unknown (2008)

Vnd do si in dirr andaht was, do sah si einen byschoff vor ir stan, vnd hatt der einen guldin kelch in siner hant vnd sprach zü ir: 'Enpfiengist du gern vnsern herren?' ❋ Unknown (2008)

The loss of contrasts in word-final position is rather common crosslinguistically as we can observe in German where the word Hand is pronounced /hant/ since voicing contrasts are likewise neutralized word-finally. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It beez sum nonymuss twonk owt in etherwhirld prolly,hoo hant got nuffin bedder tew do cept ambush nermal peepz comyunicayshunz. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Mateira ant we trink it out to ze last trop, I taket his hant ant says, ‘Mister Sergeant, perhaps you have still one Vater and one Mutter?’ ❋ Unknown (2003)

I ain't never hurry till yet, and I never see a hant. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Finally a old slavery time man come along and told em to git a quart of whiskey and pour it around the buggy and the hant would go away so they did that and the spirit let 'em pass. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Dey say this house wuz hanted and any body that tried to stay there wuz pulled out of bed by a hant. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

"Pappy, tell de ladies 'bout de hant," urged Aunt Rena from her post in the doorway, and Willis took up the story with eagerness: ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Den, befo 'I could get 'em loosen' dat hant jist lif 'his hoof -- yas ma'am, dat was a hoof, not no man's foot -- an' I 'clar cross ma heart he done hist me froo dat do' an 'cl'ar down dem stairs. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

De wings er de daid has done fanned dat air till hits hot, en when I is gwine er long en hits dat hot air, den I knows dat sum spirit er hant hes been er long dat same route, kase hit sho is hants in dis worl, yit en still dey don't walk en act lak natchal people. ❋ Work Projects Administration (N/A)

Ve neet noddings but ter stretch out mit der hant und der victory dake. ❋ Lemuel Ely Quigg (N/A)