"Sass" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... set-up," Grandpa agreed. "Good school over yonder; and a church—and big enough garden for all our garden sass and to can some." He was ticking off the points on his fingers. "And a chicken-house, and then this here cooperative farm where the folks all work together ...
— Across the Fruited Plain • Florence Crannell Means
... for the first time in his life, what it would be, if her affections, that had been like a divine beacon to him all his life, if that flame should ever go out, or ever flicker in its earthly socket — oh, those thoughts that he had seemed to consider in his own mad race for fashion — oh, how that sass that had seemed sweet to him as a gander, oh how bitter and poisonous it wuz to partake ...
— Samantha at Saratoga • Marietta Holley
... we send out to teach the heathen let their own children sass 'em and run over 'em. That is the reason that they act so sassy when they're growed up. Politeness ort to be learnt young, even if it has to ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley
... always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to "sass" old people unless ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... said Judith, pushing a chair towards Mary with her foot. "It's as hot here as oven, but I had crambry sass and ginger snaps, and massy knows what to make this morning, and I got belated; but set down and make yourself ...
— The English Orphans • Mary Jane Holmes |
