"Hain't" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "ef I hain't left the widder Foss settin' on Aunt Hitty's hoss-block, 'n' I promised to pick her up when I come along back! That all comes o' my drivin' by the store so fast on account o' the boys hectorin' of me, so 't when I got to the turn I was ...
— Timothy's Quest - A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... one," nodded the other. "You are comin' on! I s'pose you don't go to see anybody but millionaires now'days! You hain't been down to my house in ...
— Polly of the Hospital Staff • Emma C. Dowd
... agin an' agin I hain't got no use fer 'em—a-totin' guns an' knives an' a-drinkin' moonshine an' fightin' an' breakin' up meetin's an' lazin' aroun' ginerally. An' when they ain't that way," she added contemptuously, "they're like that un thar. Look at him!" She broke into a ...
— In Happy Valley • John Fox
... have to shoot, by cripes!" he bawled. "We hain't goin' to kill yuh. We'll make yuh wisht, by cripes, we had, though, b'fore we git through. Git to work, boys, 'n' gether up some dry grass an' sticks. Over there in them rose-bushes you oughta find enough bresh. We'll give him a taste uh what we was talkin' about ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower
... officer, but I could give you fits over growing rubber, and I'm not going to interfere with my neighbours who may carry on a elastic trade of their own in black rubber or they may not. 'Tain't my business. As I said afore, or was going to say afore when this here young shaver as hain't begun to shave yet put his oar in and stopped me, how should I look when yew'd gone and that half-breed black and yaller Portygee schooner skipper comes back with three or four boat-loads of his cut-throats and says to me in his bad language that ain't nayther English, ...
— Hunting the Skipper - The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop • George Manville Fenn
... were asked to assist a neighbor in sickness. As there were the mother and two grown daughters, it was supposed one of them could be secured a few days with the promise of provisions or money; but the mother contemptuously tossed her head to one side and drawled out the reply, "I reckon we hain't come down so low yet as to work" I told them they must come up high enough to work before I could do any thing for them, and left them to sit in their ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... my father, 'Here's an end on't. She's no daughter o' mine. If she was to come back to me, I'd turn her out of doors. Don't let any one name her name to me never no more. I hain't got no daughter,' he said, 'and may ...
— In Homespun • Edith Nesbit
... the old woman, with an angry shake of the head; "no, I hain't got no chickens for yer. My pullet's white, and I set a heap on't an' wouldn't sell it to nobody as come askin' oncivil questions of a lone, lorn widdy. Besides, the cat eat it up las' week, feathers ...
— Gypsy's Cousin Joy • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
... raider come hyeh to see 'bout it. Well, one mornin' he was found layin' in the road with a bullet through him. Bill was s'picioned. Now, I ain't a-sayin' as Bill done it, but when a whole lot more rode up thar on hosses one night, they didn't find Bill. They hain't found him yit, fer he's out ...
— A Mountain Europa • John Fox Jr.
... they act; but you bet no hoss thief gets off with my hoss and me watchin'. But at night it's different, I don't know how they do things. But I do know that if we tie our hosses next us, they won't be stolen. And that's what I aim to do. But if we do that, we got to give them a chance to eat, hain't we? So we'll let them feed the rest of the afternoon, and we'll tie ...
— Gold • Stewart White
... she works," Johnny said, proudly. "Mebbe my ijee ain't good for nawthin', but she's the best I could think up. Course, the thieves they hain't fotchin' no lantern along, 'cause they'd be afeared we'd see a movin' light. Then ag'in I don't b'lieve sich slinkers ever does ...
— Afloat - or, Adventures on Watery Trails • Alan Douglas
... a pen-holder an' a steel pen, man. Say!" he exclaimed, leaning forward suddenly. "Ye hain't ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... and cap, tired, homesick and bewildered with Mrs. Browne's repeated calls to know if she was sure she had all the bags, and shawls, and fans, and umbrellas, and the shrill voice of a little boy who shouted to her as the train moved off, "I say, hain't you left your bunnet in the cars; 'tain't on your head;" Allen, stunning in his long, light overcoat, tight pants, pointed shoes, cane, and eye-glasses, which he found very necessary as he pointed out his luggage, and in reply to the baggage-master's hearty "How are you, my boy?" drawled out, ...
— Bessie's Fortune - A Novel • Mary J. Holmes
... "d'ye tink I kilt some ol' sucker for 'is money—hey? Ha, ha! Well, I hain't, see? I've bin skinnin' a dead hoss an brot ye d' skin for a birfday ...
— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine
... live here alone, noways: we couldn't any of us stand it. Come along into the dinin'-room, an' Caesar he'll give you a glass of his blackberry wine. Caesar won't let anybody but hisself touch the blackberry wine, an' hain't this twenty year." ...
— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous
... He knew the lady well, and preserved a vivid recollection of her former visit. "She hain't a-coming visiting here again, is ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... her daughter, in the afternoon, "I guess I'll go and spend the arternoon with Mis' Forbes. I hain't been to see her for nigh a month, and I calc'late she'll be glad to see me. Besides, she ginerally bakes Thursdays, an' mos' likely she'll have some hot gingerbread. I'm partic'larly fond of gingerbread, an' she does know how to make ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... "Hain't it jest posserble," said Jordan, "thet what war really the fact war thet the Gipshins war drowned jest ter git 'em outer ther misery in this cussed place, and ther Jews war saved ...
— The Wedge of Gold • C. C. Goodwin
... France and Italy Europe Old World, and am now upon the track to the Chief Europian Village; but such an Institution as Yew, and Yewer young ladies, and Yewer fixin's solid and liquid, afore the glorious Tarnal I never did see yet! And if I hain't found the eighth wonder of monarchical Creation, in finding Yew, and Yewer young ladies, and Yewer fixin's solid and liquid, all as aforesaid, established in a country where the people air not absolute Loo-naticks, I am Extra Double Darned with a Nip and Frizzle to the innermostest ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various
... what this house is a comin' to, with such bedivilment in it as there's been since madam came here with that little black-headed, ugly-favored, ill-begotten, Satan-possessed, shoulder-unj'inted young one of her'n. It's been nothin' but a rowdadow the whole time, and you hain't grit enough to stop it. Madam boxes Willie, and undertakes to shet him up for a lie he never told; Miss Margaret interferes jest as she or'to, takes Willie away, and shets up madam; while that ill-marnered Lenora ...
— Homestead on the Hillside • Mary Jane Holmes
... hastened to add: "Yes, you go; you hain't had a ride since you been here. Old Darby ain't fast, but ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Vol. 1, Issue 1. - A Massachusetts Magazine of Literature, History, - Biography, And State Progress • Various
... got anythin' at all left? Just think,' he says, 'what I stood to win on that last turn, if it'd come my way—at four to one,' he says, or somethin' like that; them gamblin' terms is too much for me. 'Hain't you got nothin' at all left?' ...
— The Seeker • Harry Leon Wilson
... spring come my expected visitor, Faithful Smith. She is my own cousin on my own side, called by some a old maid. But she hain't so very old, and she's real good-lookin'—better than when she wuz a girl, I think, for life has been cuttin' pure and sweet meanin's into her face, some as they carve beauty into a cameo. She's kinder pale and her sweet soul seems to look right ...
— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley
... him breakfast early. He lef word he hadda go over to Number Two well where they're still drillin' an' hain't struck oil yet, but said as how he'd be back later today. He tuk them two drillers from the bunkhouse ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
... as if this was 'most as good as the party," whispered Lydia Ann excitedly, as they waited in the dark. "I know it; an' they hain't asked us once if we was gettin' too tired! ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter
... assisted his toilet to give you the impression that here was a man who had just come out of the ground, —a real son of the soil, whose appearance was partially explained by his humorous relation to-soap. "Soap is a thing," he said, "that I hain't no kinder use for." His clothes seemed to have been put on him once for all, like the bark of a tree, a long time ago. The observant stranger was sure to be puzzled by the contrast of this realistic and uncouth exterior ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner
... hain't got nothin' in the shape of a h'oss, Mr. Gridley. I've got a mare I s'pose I could ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... folks think a bell-boy hain't no feelings, but I might ha' been—Why, I might ha' been them, their own folks, so nice they all were to me;" thought the lad, watching the afternoon train bearing them all away, and secretly wiping the tears from his eyes. However, even for him, ...
— Dorothy's Travels • Evelyn Raymond
... "I guess you hain't," he replied, chewing a blade of rank grass which he had pulled for the purpose. "My judgment is we had a ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner
... "I hain't just ready to travel," grated the tramp. "You act jest as though you didn't know ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... and sistern,' said the preacher, 'can be divided into fo' heads. Fust, every man is somewhar. Second, most men is whar they hain't got no business to be. Third, you'd better watch out or that's whar you'll be yourself. Fo'th, infant baptism. And now, brethern and sistern, I guess we might as well pass up the first three heads and come immediately to the ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... don't see what business it is of yours, anyhow. If young ladies hain't nothin' better to do than meddle with other folks' children, they'd ...
— Lucy Raymond - Or, The Children's Watchword • Agnes Maule Machar
... no, I reckon I hain't. Don't need none. I'm an officer of the law. This is my warrant," he said, tapping ...
— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower
... "They hain't been on it fur years, anyhow," he says, reassuring the Captain, who has again taken him aside to talk over the ticklish matter. "I'm ...
— The Land of Fire - A Tale of Adventure • Mayne Reid
... I begun to scribble rhyme, I tell ye wut, I hain't ben foolin'; The parson's books, life, death, an' time Hev took some trouble with my schoolin'; 20 Nor th' airth don't git put out with me, Thet love her 'z though she wuz a woman; Why, th' ain't a bird upon the tree But half ...
— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell
... asked me to stay. He's queer about that, you know." The old man glanced at the boys. "Quite a party o' ye, hain't there?" ...
— The Rover Boys on the Plains - The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch • Arthur Winfield
... now, that belongs to a feller that left it here, oh, I dunno, mebbe close onto a week ago. I ain't seed him since. Said he'd be back for it nex' day. I ain't seed nothin' of 'im. I guess that's what you'd call a racer, now, hain't it?" ...
— Tom Slade's Double Dare • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... there's any great harm in the little splash of an island," he replied. "But when young 'uns keep saying 'look out' and 'don't go near,' I allus' believe they know what they're talking about. I hain't never hearn any grown up say rightly the place is pested, in any way, but the young 'uns just naturally shuns it, and kids often make a mighty good barometer—can tell when a ...
— The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest - The Wig Wag Rescue • Lillian Garis
... indeed!—and when the poor lamb hain't only just cried herself to sleep," she was muttering fiercely, as she softly pushed open the door. The next moment she gave a frightened cry. "Where are you? Where've you gone? Where HAVE you gone?" she panted, looking in the closet, under ...
— Pollyanna • Eleanor H. Porter
... reminds me of an English sparrow. He's always right in there wangling for his own. He will bully and browbeat if he can, and he will coax and cajole if he can't. It would be "Hi sye, corporal. They's ten men in Number 2 section and fourteen in ourn. An' blimme if you hain't guv 'em four loaves, same as ourn. Is it right, I arsks yer? Is ...
— A Yankee in the Trenches • R. Derby Holmes
... "You hain't fur wrong," replied the good old chronicle, that had so long walked hand in hand with Time. "Las' year, hit war hall the cry, 'Ole hon t' we gits a holt o' Cunnigarn's mongreals!'—'Ole hon t' we gits a holt o' Thompson's mongreals!'—'We'll ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... "I hain't seen it in a great while. I've been staying to hum this year or two. I got tired o' going out," Cynthy remarked, with again a smile very peculiar and Fleda thought a little sardonical. She did ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner
... know how them doggone jays from Boggs City expected to find out anything about that child when I hain't been able to," growled Mr. Crow in Lamson's store one night. "If they'll jest keep their blamed noses out of this affair I'll find out who her parents are some day. It takes time to trace down things like this. I guess I know what ...
— The Daughter of Anderson Crow • George Barr McCutcheon
... it," ventured the cell-mate; "but they'll send you up for it, if they can't hang you. They're goin' to try to get the death sentence. They hain't got no love for you, Byrne. You caused 'em a lot o' throuble in your day an' they haven't forgot it. I'd hate to ...
— The Mucker • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... seems to hev done you! So they hain't gin you nuthin' better than their talk, hev ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid
... the ferry hain't been past here, he said himself, since the stage was pulled off. What was here then wouldn't be here now—not if it could be eat ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... man hain't been trifled with, Dutchman or no Dutchman? Sposin' it's all a optical delusion of the yeers? There's a word fer you, Andrew, that a'n't ...
— The End Of The World - A Love Story • Edward Eggleston
... his kind of Southern system of procrastinated accents, 'hain't you heard tell? There ain't any man, black or white, in the Blue Ridge that can tote off a shoat as easy as I can without bein' heard, seen, or cotched. I can lift a shoat,' he goes on, 'out of a pen, from under a porch, at the trough, in the ...
— The Gentle Grafter • O. Henry
... "Why, it jest sets right back from his mouth: he hain't got no chin at all hardly," says I. "The place where his chin ort to be is nothin' but a holler place all filled up with irresolution and weakness. And I believe Cicely will see trouble ...
— Sweet Cicely - Or Josiah Allen as a Politician • Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)
... minit. Dat's him dat bothered me so much to-day. I'd like to smoke him for it! Gorra! if he hain't woke. Dar—take dat!" ...
— The Ranger - or The Fugitives of the Border • Edward S. Ellis
... for he bites. Ah, naughty, naughty, would you take a nip at the gentleman?" This to a stoat which thrust its wicked head and red eyes between the bars of its cage. "Don't mind that, sir: it's only a slow-worm. It hain't got no fangs, so I gives it the run o' the room, for it keeps the bettles down. You must not mind my bein' just a little short wi' you at first, for I'm guyed at by the children, and there's many a one just comes down this lane to knock ...
— The Sign of the Four • Arthur Conan Doyle
... lady, but couldn't help it no way," cheerfully responded another. "I knowed you'd holler when I seen you coming yere, but I raikoned we couldn't help it no way. We hain't a-troubling this yere barn, I don't guess. We been doing some mighty tall sleeping yere. We done woke ...
— The Little Regiment - And Other Episodes of the American Civil War • Stephen Crane
... I hain't got baccy nor pipe. You give me pipe and baccy an' I'll smoke you into fits ...
— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne
... "I hain't noticed that life comes out like stories very much," responded the pessimistic blacksmith, who, as Rebecca privately thought, had read less than half a dozen books in ...
— New Chronicles of Rebecca • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... I like her first rate. She's a good cook an' middlin' good-lookin'. I hain't got nothin' again her. They say, to the village, how 't John ...
— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond
... whose nose looks like a red-pepper pod in August, and his shirt like a section o' rich bottom land, hain't no great reason ter make remarks on other folks's use ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
... wonnerful show of these new-fangled self-tying and delivering reapers, sich as they foreigners use over sea in America, and I'm rarely fell on seeing them and having a holiday look round Lunnon town. So as there ain't not nothing particler a-doing, if you hain't got anything to say agin it, I think ...
— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard
... go up to Bennington next week and drill with the other young fellows. There will be no need of his going on any raids with the older men. We shall keep the boys out of it, and most of the beech-sealin' will be done by the men who hain't got no fam'blies here and are free in their movements. But the drill will be good for him and the time may come when all this drillin' ...
— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster
... folks a-comin' here ter bid jest out o' charity, would yew?" she demanded. "An' anyhow," in a more gentle tone,—the gently positive tone which she had acquired through forty years of living with Abraham,—"we hain't so bad off with one hunderd dollars an' tew cents, an'—beholden ter nobody! It's tew cents more 'n yew need ter git yew inter the Old Men's, an' them extry tew cents'll pervide fer me jest bewtiful." Abraham stopped ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund
... say exactly ef I know him; but I'd know ef he'd been hangin' round, sartin. Hain't been nothin' like him loose in these parts. Has ...
— Seven Miles to Arden • Ruth Sawyer
... I paid a seeress two dollars to look into my honest palm. She said, "It hain't your fault. You wasn't born right. You was born under an unlucky star." You don't know how that comforted me. It wasn't my fault—all my bumps and coffee-pots! I was just unlucky and ...
— The University of Hard Knocks • Ralph Parlette
... up with a twinkle in his eye. "Ye've changed yer views some, Huldy, hain't ye, sence the fust day ye kem heer? I didn't never think, then, as I'd be givin' you rides in the hay-riggin', sech a fine young ...
— Queen Hildegarde • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... "So you hain't heard the news? I forgot; it scared me almost to death. I thought everybody knowed it. I must ...
— Brave Tom - The Battle That Won • Edward S. Ellis
... Mrs. O'Callaghan in a trembling tone, "'tis sweet to be took care of. I hain't been took care of ...
— The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys • Gulielma Zollinger
... of chief, an' he says the white folks?—that's us, you know?—have taken th' Indians' cave. He says he doesn't want t' have any trouble, an' that we can stay here as long as we like, but that we must give him an' his followers a lot of food. Says they hain't got much. Land! Those beggars would eat us out of everything we had if we'd ...
— Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice • Victor Appleton
... Steel. You've heard of him, hain't ye?" A man at Theo's elbow was speaking. "He's responsible for this strike, I think, an' I hope he'll get his pay for it ...
— The Bishop's Shadow • I. T. Thurston
... I'm glad to have one on my side, anyhow. I only wish—You couldn't talk my wife 'round to your way of thinkin', could you?" he shrugged, with a whimsical smile. "My wife's eaten sour cream to save the sweet all her life, an' she hain't learned yet that if she'd eat the sweet to begin with she wouldn't have no sour cream—'twouldn't have time to get sour. An' there's apples, too. She eats the specked ones always; so she don't never eat anything but ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter
... sight o' trouble. Kinder colicky and weakly. Never done no good till we got him off the bottle. He'd one cow's milk, too, all the time. I was powerful partickerler 'bout that. I'd never have raised him if I hadn't bin. 'N' to this day Martin Luther hain't ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... a nigger," said a Confederate officer, when a colored soldier chased and caught him. "Berry sorry, massa," said the negro, leveling his rifle; "must kill you den; hain't time to go back and git a white man." The ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... ter heer ye norate thet ye've done been tradin' and hagglin' with old man McGivins long enough ter buy his logs offen him and yit ye hain't never met up with Alexander. I ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... raised his hand. "I am a licensed victualer, that's what I am, and I ain't flowery," he said, in an apologetic tone; "I hain't had the chance of it, being as I'd no schooling—but, deng me, you've just hit it!" And the gentleman who could not be flowery shook hands effusively with the gentleman ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... little boy, surrounded by his equally pert mates, said, after coming uninvited to look over my assortment: "Got most everything, hain't ye? Got ...
— Adopting An Abandoned Farm • Kate Sanborn
... dum if yeh never marry," said Bill. "Hain't seen the man yit that was good enough fer ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... scratching his head through his hat, "is a lunatict. He gits notions. I cain't nohow understan' him but s'long as he don' get ructious I'se gwine drive dat hay-cart to de Norf Pole if he say de word. I hain't never had a real chanst ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
... do, younker, is to find Motoza; that's what I'm going to do. You can't stand it to be alone with yourself, so you can come with me, though I hain't no idee that you'll be able to ...
— Two Boys in Wyoming - A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) • Edward S. Ellis
... snorted Phelan. "On guard an' snorin' like a bazoo. 'Tis a fine night watchman ye'd make. But, say, hain't ye seen ...
— Officer 666 • Barton W. Currie
... I hain't found that letter yit," he mourned. "Jane she's been kind o' upset 'n' cranky lately, or I should 'a' asked her about it before. I guess I shall speak about it to-night, yis, I guess I shall," ...
— Polly of Lady Gay Cottage • Emma C. Dowd
... two or three dollars a week, but he hain't no business to hire out to the circus folks. He's going back with us to-night, and I'll turn him out a ...
— The Young Acrobat of the Great North American Circus • Horatio Alger Jr.
... half-a-mile from Mottisfont station, if you know where that is," he said. "Daze me if you hain't been and cut into my hayrick!" He sniffed. "And what's this horrible smell? I do believe you've spoilt the whole lot with your stinking oil." ...
— Round the World in Seven Days • Herbert Strang
... things for a long time," Mrs. Hoch went on, "but we didn't want to say nothin', 'specially as you seemed such friends, her runnin' here and all. But we noticed she hain't been comin' lately, and then our Willie, he hears things a lot over at the station, and he says it's common talk over there that your husband and that Draper girl are planning to elope. They take the same train every morning together, come home on the ...
— Revelations of a Wife - The Story of a Honeymoon • Adele Garrison
... answered Yankee. "I thought perhaps you would rather have the money than the colt; but I tell you what, I hain't got money enough to put into that bird, and don't you talk selling to any one till we see her gait hitched up. But I guess a little of the plow won't hurt for a few ...
— The Man From Glengarry - A Tale Of The Ottawa • Ralph Connor
... day to Jim, and was passing on, for I felt in a hurry to get to the store, when he called after me, 'I say, Miss Dimpey! don't your folks want any baskets? Mother's deown sick, and can't drink milk, and I want to get her some tea, and I hain't got a cent o' money; she paid eout the last for sugar abeout a week ago.' Poor Jim always speaks as if his nose had been pinched together when he was a baby, and had never come apart since; but when I turned around he looked so sorrowful, my ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... vagrant, my duck o' diamonds. I'm a respectable Yankee peddler, trying to turn an honest penny by selling knickknacks to the fair sect. Do let me in, there's a pretty dear! You hain't no idee of the lovely things I've got in my pack—all dirt ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
... it's as well you hain't seen so much of her." In silence they traveled and, arriving at the edge of the meadow, were about to mount two of the horses, when Wetzel said in a ...
— The Last Trail • Zane Grey
... what it is, Moses Spriggins, there hain't been no secrets between us afore this, and I'd like to know why you can't tell me what business took you to Mr. Verne's office. Now you know you was there just as well as you know the ...
— Marguerite Verne • Agatha Armour
... "'We hain't acquainted at all, ma'am; but he seed us on the street this morning, and said for us to come to his party to-day. He thought as how maybe they'd be ice-cream to eat, and he told us where he lived, and so we ...
— Dickey Downy - The Autobiography of a Bird • Virginia Sharpe Patterson
... "I hain't no objections to acknowledgin' Him, deacon, only—I'm not the man to talk out much before them that I know is my betters. I ain't got the gift o' gab. I couldn't never say much to the fellers in the saloon along around about election-times, though ...
— All He Knew - A Story • John Habberton
... scoop, for a start. Now I guess you hain't been used to this sort of thing, when you was to hum? You needn't hardly tell, for white hands like yourn there ain't o' much use nohow in the bush. You must come down a peg, I reckon, and let 'em blacken like other folks, and grow kinder hard, afore ...
— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe
... "I hain't got time," answered Mr. Tucker, who feared that the Dunbars would come for Philip and release him in the course ...
— The Young Musician - or, Fighting His Way • Horatio Alger
... son, he said, "Look here, youngster, why hain't you been out doing your chores? D'ye expect me to do your work and ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... leisurely, listening to this letter. "Kind of a comic, hey?" he said. "I reckon ye'd like to hev 'em come. Hain't never ...
— Tom Slade at Black Lake • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... is in bad luck; he hain't any outfit, and wants to go to the gold fields, but will have to git some one to stake him. Obsarving the same, I made bowld to remark that it would give me frind Jiff the highest plisure to do it for him, not forgetting ...
— Klondike Nuggets - and How Two Boys Secured Them • E. S. Ellis
... use to talk about honor with them, Cap.; they hain't got no such thing in um; and they won't show fair fight, any way you can fix it. Don't they kill and sculp a white man when-ar they get the better on him? The mean varmints, they'll never behave themselves until you give ...
— The Prairie Traveler - A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions • Randolph Marcy
... know nothin' about yer men, and I hain't been interduced to 'em. If you want to ship a new crew, I'm ready to jine ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... they had got back into Bartley's parlor, and he was again drinking in its prettiness in the subdued light of the shaded argand burner, "I hain't seen anything yet that suits ...
— A Modern Instance • William Dean Howells
... dat would take him to yo' uncle, en yo' uncle would read de bill en see dat you be'n sellin' a free nigger down de river, en you know HIM, I reckon! He'd t'ar up de will en kick you outen de house. Now, den, you answer me dis question: hain't you tole dat man dat I would be sho' to come here, en den you would fix it so he could set ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... red shoes," old Jason said. "And if she hain't had a load to bear, no female ever toted one. Talk about justice! Why, Alf, that gal hain't had a thimbleful sence she was a baby. She has set out to make a livin' fer a mammy that can't hardly see where ...
— Dixie Hart • Will N. Harben
... it? Well, den, I forefwif proceeds all for to cease making remarks. But before ceasing altogever, I will obsarve that you are a pretty smart feller, Oonymoo, and I hain't see'd de Shawnee Injine yet dat knows as much as your big toe. Hencefofe I doesn't say noffin more;" and the negro held strict silence for a ...
— Oonomoo the Huron • Edward S. Ellis
... Cowboy; reckless, rough, in an unconventional suit of clothes; I hain't, as a rule, got much to say, and my conversation ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 18, 1891 • Various
... hain't ye? Must a-gone purty much all over all creation, these last three months. How's all the folks where ...
— Bart Ridgeley - A Story of Northern Ohio • A. G. Riddle
... I tell you he got round the corner! Might 'a' played checkers on his coat tail. Why, what do you suppose would been the next thing if I hadn't have let him know I saw through him?" demanded the young man of Barker, who listened to this adventure with imperfect intelligence. "He'd 'a' said, 'Hain't I seen you down Kennebunk way som'eres?' And when I said, 'No, I'm from Leominster!' or where-ever I was from if I was green, he'd say, 'Oh yes, so it was Leominster. How's the folks?' and he'd try to get me to think that he was from Leominster too; and then he'd want me to go off and see the ...
— The Minister's Charge • William D. Howells
... as keeps a hotel at Number Nine. My father was an Englishman, my mother was a Scotchman, I was born in Ireland, an' raised in Canady, an' I've lived in Number Nine for more nor twelve year, huntin', trappin' an' keepin' a hotel. I hain't never ben eddicated, but I can tell the truth when it's necessary, an' I love my friends an' ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... struck creation, And I says in admiration, 'What's this here combination?' Then I done a heap of sin. I hain't no education, Nor kin. ...
— The Belted Seas • Arthur Colton
... you on a lathe.... Huh! What's he know about it?... How's he expect this room to make a showing if it's goin' to be charged with guys like you that hain't nothin' ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland
... directly, and Hazel took his hand and exhorted him to forgive all his enemies. "Hain't a ...
— Foul Play • Charles Reade
... you might just as well take it right along with you," she said. "You can send me the money in a letter, if it's all right, but land knows when you will be here again, and I hain't got anybody to ...
— Phebe, Her Profession - A Sequel to Teddy: Her Book • Anna Chapin Ray
... reproach and disgust. "It's no use. I might as well give it best. I can see that it's only waste of time trying to learn you anything. Will I ever be able to knock some gumption into your thick skull? After all the time and trouble and pains I've took with your education, you hain't got any more sense than to go and mug a business like that! When will you learn sense? Hey? After all, I—Smith, ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson |
