airt
noun
a direction.
airth
-
a variation of
airt.
Example Sentences
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"A jungle—a jungle," continued the Squire, coughing in his embarrassment; "a jungle—is—a—place—a kind-er cave, where the lions go, deep inter the airth, and where they can growl and roar, without disturbin' anybody."
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
“Yes, it war that same gal; but how on airth did you come for to guess it so straight?”
From The White Squaw by Mayne Reid
A preacher?—who upon airth would have thought it? he never said nothin' about preach'n'.'
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Azel Stevens Roe
"They do say the airth moves, and the sun stands still; but you and I, Parson, we git up airly and we see it rise!"
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
Work up all our cotton at home, Let not one more bale be exported, Have the world at our feet, like old Rome, By the kings of the airth as was courted.
From Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) by William Shepard Walsh
