"ARDS" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... happening in Peter's house, the less she liked it. It had never occurred to Emma Campbell that Peter might go away from Riverton. Yet now he was going, and it had been taken for granted that she, Emma, who, as she said, had "raised 'im from a puppy up'ards," wouldn't mind staying on here after his departure. Fetching a cold sigh from the depths of an afflicted bosom, Emma moved snail-like toward the work in hand; and as she worked she howled dismally that nobody knew the trouble she saw, "nobody ...
— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler
... ain't babbies got no in'ards to capsize?" asked the landlady, defiantly. "And chucked in among the pison for ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... ma, lads, I felt so fearful prahd; Mi ears pricked up, mi collar rahse, T'ards a hawf-a-yard; Mi chest stood aght, mi charley in, Like horns stuck aght mi tie; Fer I dined wi' a gentleman O' gooise ...
— Revised Edition of Poems • William Wright
... remark: I listened long, but all I seemed to hear Was dead leaves goss'pin' on some birch-trees near; But ez they hedn't no gret things to say, An' said 'em often, I come right away, An', walkin' home'ards, jest to pass the time, I put some thoughts thet bothered me in rhyme: I hain't hed time to fairly try 'em on, But ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 52, February, 1862 • Various
... as spry as a boy, and as soon as he'd gorn the skipper started walking back'ards and ...
— Ship's Company, The Entire Collection • W.W. Jacobs
... Francesca, won't recognise you. Then, when the next boat comes from the ship, we'll tumble down into her and offer to give two of the others a spell; they'll be only too glad of the chance to get a little relief from the job of pullin' backwards and for'ards and the handlin' of a lot of stuff, and, once aboard the ship, we can stow ourselves out of sight until they leave ...
— The Pirate Slaver - A Story of the West African Coast • Harry Collingwood
... to walk all over the docks, which are nine miles along; and I don't remember a instance since my 'rival in London of my gettin into a cab without a Briton comin and perlitly shuttin the door for me, and then extendin his open hand to'ards me, in the most frenly manner possible. Does he not, by this simple yit tuchin gesture, welcum me to England? Doesn't he? Oh yes—I guess he doesn't he. And it's quite right among two great countries which speak the same langwidge, except ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 5 • Charles Farrar Browne
... cur'ous." But inquired further: "Is that stuffin' or in'ards coming through the sewin' down ...
— The Dude Wrangler • Caroline Lockhart
... living in town then, and Albert and his wife wuz living in the country with their two chillun. Well, Albert got down sick and he would go ter doctors, and go ter doctors, but they didn't do him any good. I wuz worried ter death cause I had ter run backards and for'ards and it wuz a strain on me. He wuz suffering with a knot on his right side and he couldn't even fasten his shoes cause it pained him so, and it wuz so bad he couldn't even button up his pants. A 'oman teached school out there by ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration |
