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Then she answered, 'Well, he's a Christian an' a churchgoer an' you ain't, but if he was the Angel Gabriel himself, Adam, an' was a chawer, I wouldn't marry him.

From The Miller Of Old Church by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

"Yo' bet she do, stranger," answered the father, "she's jus' a chawer from away back," at the same time giving her a goodly sized piece of the weed.

From The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Boyton, Paul