I's know better dan trust you anoder time if ever I gets over dis,' ses he, an' he kick out one leg wid a Yerk as if he's goin' a deader.
"Old Hendrik's Tales"
Arthur Owen Vaughan
One cannot put one's finger to one's nose, or Yerk ye in the ribs, or lay hold of your button in writing; but in all the most lively and titterly parts of my letter you must not fail to imagine me, as the epic poets say, now here, now there; now with one foot pointed at the ceiling, now with another; now with my pen on my ear, now with my elbow in my mouth.
"Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends"
John Keats
I pull, I twis', I Yerk at dem jacket; 'e yent come.
"Nights With Uncle Remus"
Joel Chandler Harris