He would buy persimmons, li-CHIS, bread-fruit, and custard-apples, not because he thought he could sell them; but because they gave tone to his shop.
"Adventures of Bindle"
Herbert George Jenkins
"Where," I asked, "are the Romany chals and the Romany CHIS?"
"Danger! and Other Stories"
Arthur Conan Doyle
20 Lit-CHIS, grosse espee.
"An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island"
John Hunter