"Stiddy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... keep your rockin'-chair kind of stiddy," he said, when they turned the corner into the new road, and the chair oscillated like ...
— Pembroke - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... Kentuck er West Virginny could handle a shootin' iron with Big Jerry in them days, an', come County Fair time, I mostwise allus kerried off the money prize an' the wreath give by ther queen. 'Twarn't fancy shootin', like they hes on the stage yo' war er-speakin of, p'raps, but hit took a stiddy hand an' a clar eye ter do the trick. Gener'lly the spo't ended with the pick er the rifle shooters a-trying ter cut down ten weighted strings et a hundred paces, an' more times then once I done hit in as ...
— 'Smiles' - A Rose of the Cumberlands • Eliot H. Robinson
... love yo'.' (Jes' dem th'ee wuds!) De wuds fall right slow—like dirt falls out a spade on a coffin when yo's buryin' anybody an' seys, 'Uth to uth.' Marse Chan he jes' let her hand drap, an' he stiddy hisse'f 'g'inst de gate-pos', an' he didn' speak toreckly. When he did speak, all ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 9 • Various
... 'Fanny' seems to be a little lame, this mornin'," said he. "I shouldn't wonder. She's been goin' pretty stiddy this week." ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) • Various |
