"A pair of the artfullest cusses I ever comed across.
"The White Squaw"
Mayne Reid
Yet these people of yesterday were his people-and they offered him of their pitiful best even when their ignorance was so incredible that the name of the divinity was to them only "somethin' a feller cusses with"-and he felt that his campaign was prospering.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
He glared for a second or so at the intruders, then lowering his gun he charged them at a run, storming out as he did so: "What you doin' here, you onery cusses, you!
"Hoosier Mosaics"
Maurice Thompson