Usage examples (9)

• "Long Jimmy," a big eater, asked him, "Shadrach, is the soup in good kelter?"
• Then the politicals are all out of kelter, one doesn't hardly know his own mind, and all are afraid of what is in another's.
• The wheat's kernin 'somethin' cruel fine -- I awnly wish theer was more of it -- an 'the sheep an' cattle's in braave kelter likewise.
• She was a beautiful ship, in what we call "high kelter;" she seemed a living body, conscious of her own superior power over her opponents, whose shot she despised, as...