"Assart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... kinder sorter struck it me warn't dignified to be a singin' of nigger-catches that way. So says I to myself, 'This ain't respectful to our great nation to keep a high functionary a waitin' arter this fashion, is it? Guess I'd better assart the honour of our republic by goin' away; and let him see that it warn't me that was his lackey ...
— The Attache - or, Sam Slick in England, Complete • Thomas Chandler Haliburton |
