"Ahold" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... away, you'll hev to rattle On them kittle-drums o' yourn,— 'Taint a knowin' kind o' cattle Thet is ketched with mouldy corn; Put in stiff, you fifer feller, Let folks see how spry you be,— Guess you'll toot till you are yeller 'Fore you git ahold o' me! ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody
... he said. "I wish I could find out what you are talking about, and where you got ahold of that ...
— Lucia Rudini - Somewhere in Italy • Martha Trent
... to Philadelphia, an' he was dead broke. But Saynt Augustine was a live man, an' he saw Philadelphia was full o' Quakers that dressed plain an' eat humdrum. So he started cookin' Domingo way for 'em, an' they caught right ahold. Terrapin, he gave 'em, an' croakeets, an' he'd use forty chickens to make a broth he called consommay. An' he got rich, and Philadelphia got well known, an' Delmonico in New York he got jealous. He was the cook that had the say-so in ...
— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister
... would get a wiggle on him with his little old cleaning duds if he had a woman ahold of his ...
— Arizona Nights • Stewart Edward White |
