"Ler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as if not immediately grasping the significance of the question. 'I don't know as there's any news, nothing partic'ler, that is.' ...
— The Grim Smile of the Five Towns • Arnold Bennett
... Torrini's about dervidin' up property," said Jemmy Willson. "I've heerd it afore; but it's sing'ler I never knowd a feller with any property to ...
— The Stillwater Tragedy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich
... reg'ler clean out," remarked Bainton then, in accents of deep disdain, as he stooped to gather up the refractory branches: "It beats me altogether, Passon, to know what you wants wi' a forcin' bed for weeds ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... "Tron de ler! by the throne on high! they're no pirates. It's long since there were any pirates hereabout. Those dark porters ...
— Tartarin of Tarascon • Alphonse Daudet
... is so, and he means to kape to his own way of life. If I go West, me b'y, 'tis on wages as a gardener—and, bedad, I'll draw 'em reg'ler, too. I'd like well to go West ('twould rejice me to see Fan and McArdle), and I don't object to spendin' a year with you in Coloraydo, but don't think Patrick Haney is to be pinsioner on anny one, not even ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland
... queer part of it, sir. I axed pertic'ler. This gray car brought a gentleman, a small, youngish man, 'oo skipped up the Embassy steps like a lamplighter, and went in afore you could s'y 'knife.' Somebody might ha' bin watchin' for him through the keyhole, the door was opened ...
— Number Seventeen • Louis Tracy
... arrival home I received a letter from a horse-trainer then located at Springfield, Ohio, saying I had been recommended to him as a splendid horse-back rider, a general "hus'ler" in business, and possibly a good advertiser. As these were the requirements needed in his business, he would give me a half interest in the same if I would join him. He then went on to state the marvelous ...
— Twenty Years of Hus'ling • J. P. Johnston
... on the Colonel p'intin' to a thin, black little felon with long ha'r like a pony, who's strayed over from Tucson; 'I gives it out cold, meanin' tharby no offence to our Tucson friend—I gives it out cold that Hoppin' Harry used to be a t'rant'ler. First,' continyoos the Colonel, stackin' Harry up mighty scientific with his optic jest showin' over his glass, 'first I allows he's a toad. Not a horned toad, which is a valyooed beast an' has a mission; but one of these yere ornery forms of toads which ...
— Wolfville Days • Alfred Henry Lewis
... Te kata ka jingwin ka khyndew ka la pynkyndit ia u khun bynriew baroh ha ka pyrthei, bad ki la pyrkhat ba la jia ei ei. U Suidnoh u'm poi shuh sha la iing, te kiba ha iing jong u ki la leit wad, namar ki la tip ba u la leit ai jingbam ha U Thlen da u nar saw: hangta ki la shem ba u la iap ler, bad ki la pynkyndit ia u bad ki la kylli ia u "Balei me iapler kumne?" U ong, "Hamar ba nga dang ai jingbam ia U Thlen da u nar saw ba la pyrsut bha, u la kyrthat, khih lympat U Thlen bad nga la iap ler. "Ia, ia leit khymih kumno ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... good at workin' out a resate, too. But then, I ain't anyways partic'ler 'bout hirin' ...
— Faith Gartney's Girlhood • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... Don't ye worry. What ye both need is a good sleep, so I'm goin' to ask you, Miss, to take my bunk over yon in the corner. I guess ye'll find everythin' in good shape, fer my wife's a most pertic'ler woman an' ...
— The King's Arrow - A Tale of the United Empire Loyalists • H. A. Cody
... out, yeou could hear 'im all over the farm, a-cussin' and swearin'. He werry seldom spook to anybody now, but he was alluz about arly and late; nothin' seemed to tire him. 'Fore that he nivver went to charch; now he went reg'ler. But he wud saa sumtimes, comin' out, "Parson's a fule." But if anybody was ill, he bod 'em go up to the Hall and ax for suffen. {62} There was young Farmer Whoo's wife was werry bad, and the doctor saa that what she wanted ...
— Two Suffolk Friends • Francis Hindes Groome
... Go in now and fetch me fish, fetch me chickens, fetch me plenty eggs. Fetch me a dam scullion. Heh? Stir yo' legs and fetch me a dam scullion, and the chickens tender. His Exc'llence mos' partic'ler ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... the little busy bee Improve the shining hour. But I prefer The caterpil-ler That feeds on the self-same flower. The bee he slaves for all his life;— Not so the other one; For he soars to the sky, A butterfly, Ere half ...
— A Castle in Spain - A Novel • James De Mille
... feller, is it?" said Bill. "I guess he won't stay 'round here long. I guess you'll find he's a little too toney fer these parts, an' in pertic'ler fer Dave Harum. Dave'll make him feel 'bout as comf'table as a rooster in a pond. Lord," he exclaimed, slapping his leg with a guffaw, "'d you notice Ame's face when he said he didn't want much fer supper, only beefsteak, an' eggs, an' tea, an' ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott
... vorliegende Uebersetzung ist aus dem Bedrfnis einer wortgetreuen Wiedergabe altenglischer Denkmler entstanden. Soweit es der Sinn zuliess, ist das Bestreben dahin gegangen, fr jedes altenglische Wort das etymologisch entsprechende neuhochdeutsche, wenn vorhanden, einzusetzen. So ist die Uebersetzung zugleich ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... whar no trab'ler returns," replied the cook, pausing in his occupation and staring the second ...
— A Victorious Union - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray—Afloat • Oliver Optic
... "Correspondance de Napoleon ler" XXX., 345, 346. ("Memoires.") "Circumstances were such as to still make it necessary to disguise the unique magistracy of ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 5 (of 6) - The Modern Regime, Volume 1 (of 2)(Napoleon I.) • Hippolyte A. Taine
... all of it,' says the old man, filling his pipe. 'We've got to look at what comes after. I never liked that imported bull being took. They'll rake all the colonies to get hold of him again, partic'ler as he sold ...
— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood
... Malcolm; "an' eh, sir, afore ye rise frae that bed sweir to the great God 'at ye'll never drink nae mair drams, nor onything 'ayont ae tum'ler ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 • Various
... could mane, and, in troth, Judy dear, What I myself meant, doesn'tseem mighty clear; But the truth is, tho' still for the Owld Light a stickler, I was just then too shtarved to be over partic'lar:— And, God knows, between us, a comic'ler pair Of twin Protestants couldn't ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... are so partick'ler," replied that worthy, with a very bad pretence of being angry, "kim along, Wilton, thaar now! and see to this mine of ourn that you've now got to look arter. How does ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... "Hizo Picado el secreptario del Marquez mucho dano a muchos, porque el marquez don Francisco Picarro como no savia ler ni escrivir fiavase del y no hacia mas de lo que el le aconsejava y ansi hizo este mucho mal en estos rreinos, porque el que no andava a su voluntad sirviendole aunque tuviese meritos le destruya y este Picado fue causa de que los de Chile ...
— The History Of The Conquest Of Peru • William H. Prescott
... I devoted myself to the sacred and pleasing task of reviving old memories. One of the first places I visited was the house I lived in as a student, which in my English friend's French was designated as "Noomero sankont sank Roo Monshure ler Pranse." I had been told that the whole region thereabout had been transformed by the creation of a new boulevard. I did not find it so. There was the house, the lower part turned into a shop, but there were the windows out of which I used to look along the Rue Vaugirard,—au troisieme ...
— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... manquer, to be lacking. marbre, m., marble. marcher, to walk, go. Mardoche, Mordecai. marque, f., mark, token. marquer, to mark, fix, set. matin, m., morning. maudire, to curse. mchant, wicked. mler, to mingle, mix; se — , to mingle with. membre, m., limb. mme, even; adj., same, very, self; un —, one and the same. mmoire, f., memory. menacer, to menace, threaten. mener, to lead. mensonge, m., untruth. mensong-er, ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... Mr. Beale; "a reg'ler wash all over—this very night. I always like a wash meself. Some blokes think it pays to be dirty. But it don't. If you're clean they say 'Honest Poverty,' an' if you're dirty they say 'Serve you right.' We'll get a pail ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... you're not, but, bless your soul, thet won' 'urt yer. It'll do you no end of good. Why, often when I've been feelin' thet done up thet I didn't know wot ter do with myself, I've just 'ad a little drop of whisky or gin—I'm not partic'ler wot spirit it is—an' it's pulled ...
— Liza of Lambeth • W. Somerset Maugham
... scull rig'ler in, Don't go for to make any crabs; But feather your oar, like a nob, And show 'em ve're ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour
... thickly, "le'm 'ntroduce m'self. Haven't th' honor y'r 'quain's. I'm Ca'm New(hic)'ll. Cap'n N-n-(hic)oohaul (this cost prodigious effort and much balancing), an'—an' you sherv'd that f'ler per-per-flicky ri'. He's dam ...
— Warrior Gap - A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. • Charles King
... its beauteous ray Aught of hope or joy foretell? (Antistrophe) Trav'ler, yes; it brings the day, Promised ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... much of a trav'ler, and really can't boast That I know a great deal of the Brittany coast, But I've often heard say That e'en to this day, The people of Granville, St. Maloes, and thereabout, Are a class that society doesn't much care about; Men who gam ...
— The Humourous Poetry of the English Language • James Parton
... house-boats and miscellaneous craft before a city. Even at this unseemly hour we are visited by an owlish pedler, whose boat is fitted up with boxes containing various dishes toothsome to the heathen palates of the water-men. Yung Po and Ah Sum look wistfully over the ancient pastry-ped-ler's wares, and pick out tiny dishes of sweetened rice gruel; this they consume with the same unutterable satisfaction that hungry monkeys display when eating chestnuts, ending the performance by licking the platters. Although ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens |
