Cud [noun]

Ruth — now entirely awake — picked up her own phone and soon we both lay there chewing our digital cud like narcotized cattle.

He was standing in about two feet of cold spring water contentedly chewing his cud.

Molly Donahue wants a vote, but though she cud bound Kamachatka as aisily as ye cud this precint, she ain't qualified f'r it.

He cudden't find a goold mine f'r ye but he cud see th' bottom iv wan through three thousand feet iv bullyon.

Th' on'y way ye or me cud rightly exthricate anny money fr'm a bank wud be be means iv a brace an' bit.

An' with th' missionaries we sint sharpshooters that cud pick off a Chinyman beatin' th' conthribution box at five hundherd yards.

No Chinyman cud fail to be pleased at seem' a tall Englishman hittin' th' Chinyman's grandfather's coffin with a niblick.

Whin ye come to think iv it 'tis wondherful that anny man cud cross th' Atlantic in annything.

Be hivens, I cud hand a piece iv change to a judge iv th' supreem coort.

I'd be laughin' over th' cases that I was called into whin I wasn't needed an' cryin' over th' cases where I cud do no good.