"Leastwise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Safe-now—leastwise I think so. If this rick had gone the barn would have followed. 'Tis that bold shepherd up there that have done the most good—he sitting on the top o' rick, whizzing his great long-arms about like ...
— Far from the Madding Crowd • Thomas Hardy
... a thief, sir," said one of the policemen, "leastwise I think that's what he's been up to. Could you throw us down a bit of rope? We've no handcuffs here, and one of us has to go to the lock-up and the other to Washington street, where there's a woman yelling blue murder; and hurry ...
— Beautiful Joe • Marshall Saunders
... this is the desk where she wrote "Jane Eyre"—leastwise they say it is. This is the chair she sat in, and under that framed glass are several sheets of her manuscript. The writing is almost too small to read; and so fine and yet so perfect and neat! She was a wonderful tidy body, ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14 - Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women • Elbert Hubbard
... in my own mind, Mr. Fiske—leastwise, Mr. Orden," Phineas Cross, the Northumbrian, remarked, from the other side of the table. "They're up to any mortal dodge, these Germans. Are we to accept it as beyond all doubt that this document is ...
— The Devil's Paw • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... they entered camp and began spreading their blankets, "leastwise I'll do my best to see that no harm comes to them beaver, nor ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
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