Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

also written versal

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ou knows as how the witches in Wales fly upon broom-sticks: but here was flying without any broom-stick, or thing in the varsal world, and firing of pistols in the air, and blowing of trumpets, and swinging, and rolling of wheel-barrows upon a wire (God bless us!) no thicker than a sewing-thread;

Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)

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"Now, sartin I'd a said that Missis would a scoured the varsal world after Lizy," added Sam, thoughtfully.

Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin