Medders

(I think he said "medders" and "crick," and his "nor" sounded as if he put an _e_ in it.) "There are a good many things we should have to leave behind." ❋ Amanda Minnie Douglas (1873)

Actually, it was from my technorati feed, medders. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An 'then ye look at the medders an' ye see thet, barrin 'a big boulder or two an' some stuns thet an ox-team can cart off, an 'some gullyin' out long the highroad, they ain't been hurt a mite. ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

When we couldn't see no more, we went home by the high road, because we knowed the brook 'u'd be out acrost the medders, an' we wasn't goin 'to hunt for Jim's little rotten old bridge in that dark -- an' rainin 'Heavens' hard, too. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

We're going to make six hundred tons of hay right out there in them medders this summer. ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

She de beatenes 't'ing dat evah struck de medders o' de town, ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

Did ye ever hear tell o 'George the Third, King of England, Alcestis, or ain't he known over to the crambry medders? ❋ Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin (1889)

Snow 's a-fallin 'on de medders, all erroun' me now is white, ❋ Paul Laurence Dunbar (1889)

'Please, sir, I finished with the Hall medders yesterday, and Mr. Carter's job don't begin till to-morrow. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Who knows the language of the liquid waves as they whisper to each other on sunny beaches and at the meetin 'of placid waters, makin' love to each other like as not -- one tellin 'the other of the sweet cow-slip and ferny medders it had to leave at the loud call of its love, the River. ❋ Marietta Holley (1881)

"There'll be little boys and girls to play with," pursued Nurse, trying to heighten the picture; "and flowers -- and birds and such -- and medders, and a garding, and all manner." ❋ Amy Walton (1873)

It was broken by the sarcastic drawl of Dick McKinstry: "If them Harrisons don't mind heven had their medders trampled over by a few white men, why" -- ❋ Bret Harte (1869)

I've stood there where the Rothel comes down from The Gore in its spring freshet, rarin ', tearin' down, bearin 'stones an' rocks along with its current till it strikes the lowlands; then a racin 'along, catchin' up turf an 'mud an' sand, an 'foamin' yaller an 'brown acrost the medders, leavin' mud a quarter of an inch thick on the lowlands; and then a-rushin 'into the lake ez if 't would turn the bottom upside down -- an' jest look what happens! ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

Inger rubber, and smart as a steel trap; and there warn't a hen laid an egg, or cackled, but Mis 'Carryl was right there to see about it; and she hed the garden made in the spring, and the medders mowed in summer, and the cider made, and the corn husked, and the apples got in the fall; and the doctor, he hedn't nothin' to do but jest sit stock still a meditatin 'on Jerusalem and Jericho and them things that ministers think about. ❋ Harriet Beecher Stowe (1853)

"Both got on ole cloes took from scarecrows in the medders; and then if yuh looks right sharp at the left wrist o 'ther short coon yuh kin see he's awearin' a steel bracelet. ❋ Lawrence J. Leslie (N/A)

"I'll say one thing," observed Byram, with dignity; "if ever I git out of this darn continong with my circus, I'll recooperate in the undulatin 'medders an' j'yful vales of the United States. ❋ Unknown (1899)

"Say," he went on, suddenly, "have you noticed how perty the moonlight is on the medders these nights? ❋ Emerson Hough (1890)

"There's a path certainly from stile to stile, but it only leads to my farrest medder, and though I never says nothing to nobody who thinks it's a nice walk down there by the river to fish or pick flowers or what not, though they often tramples my medder grass in a way as is sorrowful to see, they're my medders, and the writing's in my strong-box, and not a shilling on 'em. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

"[I don't like] to medder up with all kinda people" "Don't medder with people ([chirren])" "Why you think she medderin [up in] their business." ❋ Tingumdem (2006)