Kerl

From his countenance I could not gather what he had said but the word kerl made me prepare myself for a repetition of the struggle of yesterday, for which I did not feel the least inclination. ❋ M��r J��kai (1864)

Tehn tehy kerl up an go to sleep an yur up awl nite wit a shotgun! ❋ Unknown (2008)

Snorgul, smooch, kerl teh tayl, kraws teh pawzez, myow myow purr myow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But, Sin Showpanza, could anybroddy which walked this world with eyes whiteopen have looked twinsomer than the kerl he left behind him? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Twenty-five yards away, four kerl riders spotted them and gave chase. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Teynel had gotten on their lone kerl, as befitted his senior rank among the "Rathi" troops. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

The second rider hauled on his reins, twisting his beast away from the fallen kerl. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

By the time Greven walked there as no kerl existed big enough to carry him, Predator was waiting. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Teynel leaned nonchalantly across the neck of his kerl. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Eladamri, suitably clothed in rags, sat on the back of a plodding kerl, his hands shackled together. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

His kerl blubbered and pranced, anxious to escape the flames. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

The kerl made a flat, bleating sound and heeled over, greasy green blood gushing from its chest. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Crovax dissolved the platform and mounted his kerl. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Every few minutes a pair of kerl-mounted men rode by. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

The commander's kerl was tethered to the stump of a lance outside his quarters. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Eyes narrowed to slits, Nasser dismounted his soot - smudged kerl and tossed the reins to the nearest mogg. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)

Aber when she runs with this poor kerl away from her family, and her first husband's family is so schrecklich mad that they try by law to take from her her boy and her money, because she has her highborn family disgraced, you see? ❋ Edna Ferber (1926)

"Speak English, dummer kerl!" he exclaimed, angrily. ❋ William Almon Wolff (1909)

The maids also came to look; and the buxom cook, with her spotless apron and bare arms akimbo, was drawn from her kitchen, and pledged her culinary honour that such a pracht-kerl should be served up in her very best style. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)

The Germans, who herein show their good sense and the high state of civilization to which they have reached, are very free advertisers, going to the newspapers with all their wants, and finding in them that aid which all interests and all sorts of people, from kaiser to kerl, are compelled, in these days, to seek in the daily journal. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)