Pards

Five years ago I was on a raft as big as this, and right along here it was a bright moonshiny night, and I was on watch and boss of the stabboard oar forrard, and one of my pards was a man named Dick ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

He hunted out six partners of his own -- "pards," he called them -- to whom he spoke at length. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

It was furnished with a pair of spouts in the shape of leaping pards, with tongues as stoppers. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

And soon they were talking about why it was better to hunt with dogs than pards, such an odd Lambaneish custom. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I was solely trying to communicate to the pards at the table the continuing saga of these chaps. ❋ Der Alte Fritz (2009)

My pards at the Fightin' Cock all sit up and sqawk when this tough old bird sings! ❋ Michael Caddell (2008)

Join up today, and if you aint cowboy now, you soon will be, pards. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"We could still be pards," she said, taking my hand. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I shook Fred's hand and Jackie took one look at my face and said "OK, pards, it's time for some serious inebriation." ❋ Bartlett, James Y. (2004)

"How close do you want it, pards?" he called to me. ❋ Bartlett, James Y. (2004)

"Lotta demand for heroin everywhere, pards," Jack said. ❋ Bartlett, James Y. (2004)

"Never heard you say that before, pards," I told him. ❋ Bartlett, James Y. (2004)

Cotta found the helmets fascinating: rimless and pot-shaped, some were symmetrically adorned above the ears with magnificent horns or wings or hollow tubes holding bunches of stiffly upright feathers, while others were fashioned to resemble serpents or dragon heads or hideous birds or pards with gaping jaws. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)