Citations:able for

English citations of able for

• 1896, McClure's magazine, page 270:

  “'Ugh—I'll not be able for get up. Send for M'sieu le Curé—I'll be goin' for die for sure.' “'A/isère, but dat's no man / Dat's a drunk pig,' my moder she's say, angry. ' Sick, eh? Lazy, lazy—dat's so. An' dere hain't no fish for de little chilluns, an' it's ...

• 1898 December 17, “Mr. Owens' Experience”, in Forest and Stream, volume 51, page 485:

  An I say in "So wass I. I see lot of sy-pokes fly up an twist off like screw-cork an spit whistle, but I wass'nt able for get aim on him."

• 1899, Elizabeth Simmons, “Letter”, in David Murray, editor, Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education: History of Education in New Jersey, page 132:

  we have had so much bisness this sumer that we have not been able for go no ware at tall but I dooe supose that you and sarahs mind runs so much upon Mr M— and on Edward —that you cant think of leving them but com and look at some of our rariton boes and to see how you dooe like them

• 2006, Mark Panek, Gaijin Yokozuna: A Biography of Chad Rowan, page 87:

  I could've gone to University of Hawai'i for football, and I was thinking to myself, 'See, if I wen' try harder from my freshman year I would've been able for go any school I wanted to.