"Shoat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... guess fur from right this time, Dan! Scrape off a little more dirt, and we'll haul up the carcass. Needn't be partic'lar 'bout scrapin' very keerful, nuther. He's a mean shoat, whoever he is; one o' them cussed Union-shriekers. Wish they was all planted like he is! Hope we shall find five or six more. Ketch ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... down dem biscuit, E't 'em faster dan a shoat. Dey wus a liddle tough an' knotty, But I ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... advise with wisdom upon any number of subjects, such as just at what time of the moon to make soap so that it would "set" well, how to find a missing shoat, or the right spot to dig ...
— Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales • Ruth McEnery Stuart
... committee's been 'roun' here to see what Pa'd subscribe, an' he signed for o-n-e shoat! Think how it'll look!—'Wm. Coleman, one shoat.' An' the paper's goin' all over the county; everybody'll see it,—General Bradshaw, and Mandy, and all the girls! If I couldn't give anything but a mean ole shoat, I wouldn't put ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9 • Various |
