chahms

Updated: April 30, 2025

While the mulatto guide was talking, or swearing Jack's half-amused questions, the cab left Annapolis further and further behind. "Yo' see, sah," the guide went on, "Marse Truax wa'n't in no fit condition, sah, to try de strongest voodoo medicine dat he called fo'. So, w'ile de voodoo was sayin' his strongest chahms, Marse Truax done fall down, frothin' at de mouth.

Victor G. Durham - The Submarine Boys and the Middies: The Prize Detail at Annapolis

While the mulatto guide was talking, or answering Jack’s half-amused questions, the cab left Annapolis further and further behind. “Yo’ see, sah,” the guide went on, “Marse Truax wa’n’t in no fit condition, sah, to try de strongest voodoo medicine dat he called fo’. So, w’ile de voodoo was sayin’ his strongest chahms, Marse Truax done fall down, frothin’ at de mouth.

Victor G. Durham - The Submarine Boys and the Middies : Or, the Prize Detail at Annapolis

Great earthquake come up one night an' swallowed de whole town an only a few yeahs ago, when de watah was right cleah, yo' could see de tops ob some ob de houses still standin' at de bottom. I belibe Lucinda Nelson, sah, fur she's a great 'oman an' known a heap ob tings. Niggah folks all go to her fur hoodoos an' chahms an' I reckon she mus' be close on two hun' yeahs ole."

Paul Boyton - The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World