We knew we could rout the old codger, the owner, out, if we made noise enough, for he lived over his shop.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Outside, I met an old codger.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett
He actually remembered my grandfather and what do you think, Morley"-Lans had turned his back upon Martin, whose fixed stare and rigid pose disturbed him-"the old codger actually told me half of a story the other half of which Aunt Olive and I have often laughed over.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock