"Ain" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I had hardly reached the deck when I was confronted by a negro, the biggest I ever saw in, my life. He looked me up and down for a moment, then opening his ebony features in a wide smile, he said, "Great snakes! why, here's a sailor man for sure! Guess thet's so, ain't it, Johnny?" I said "yes" very curtly, for I hardly liked his patronizing air; but he snapped me up short with "yes, SIR, when yew speak to me, yew blank lime-juicer. I'se de fourf mate ob dis yar ship, en my name's Mistah Jones, 'n yew, jest freeze ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen
... They'll never catch 'im! It must 'ave happened hours and hours ago—they was both stone cold. One each end of a little passage what ain't used no more. That's why they didn't find ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... you wouldn't," said the other man. "That ain't the way benefactors go to work. What be you goin' to do at ...
— 'Doc.' Gordon • Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman
... "Look a-here, Rans, I ain't none o' your kid-glove kind. I allus speaks out what I hev to say. I hate you and yourn, and I jest tell you in plain English 'at I'm glad your sister's dead; not fur her sake, but ...
— Five Thousand Dollars Reward • Frank Pinkerton
... on a Party larst week as went up the River (our nice little Stream, as the aughty Amerrycanes calls it) to Ship Lake, tho' why it's called so I coodn't at all make out, as there ain't no Ship nor no Lake to be seen there, ony a werry little Werry, and a werry littel River, and a werry littel Hiland; and it was prinsepally to see how the appy yung Gents who sumtimes lives on ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., September 20, 1890 • Various
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