"Ler" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Hope ye ain't too partick'ler," rejoined Captain Snaggs; "fur this 'll be the last dinner thet air conceited darkey, Sam, 'll cook fur ye, Flinders. He goes in the fo'c's'le to-morrow, an' this hyar lout of a stooard shall take ...
— The Island Treasure • John Conroy Hutcheson
... granted to Michael Pauw, included Staten Island and much of what is now Jersey City; it was sold back to the company after a few years. The most successful patroonship was the Van Rensselaer (ren'se-ler) estate on the Hudson near Albany. It extended twenty-four miles along both banks of the river and ran back into the country twenty-four miles from each bank. The family still occupies a ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... an' too handsome a pussy to be after wastin' her time on them little bastes. It's that little tarrier dog of yours, Mrs. Hopkins, that will be after worryin' the mice an' the rats, an' the thaves too, I 'll warrant. Is n't he a fust-rate-lookin' watch-dog, an' a rig'ler rat-hound?" ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... 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 u la long." ...
— The Khasis • P. R. T. Gurdon
... on apercevait, l-haut, dans les btiments noirs et ruins du vieux collge, une petite lueur ple qui veillait: c'tait la lampe de l'abb Germane. Bien des fois aussi, le matin, en descendant pour l'tude de six heures, je voyais, travers la brume, la lampe brler encore; l'abb Germane ne s'tait pas couch.... On disait qu'il travaillait ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... Watchman, does its beauteous ray Aught of hope or joy foretell? (Antistrophe) Trav'ler, yes; it brings the ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... as if astonished at the question, "I'm a tourist. Makin' a pedestrun trip t' all the reg'ler sights." And, inspired to eloquence, he added, as an ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... me, jentle reader, to Quebeck. Quebeck was surveyed and laid out by a gentleman who had been afflicted with the delirium tremens from childhood, and hence his idees of things was a little irreg'ler. The streets don't lead anywheres in partic'ler, but everywheres in gin'ral. The city is bilt on a variety of perpendicler hills, each hill bein' a trifle wuss nor t'other one. Quebeck is full of stone walls, and arches, and citadels and things. ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 2 • Charles Farrar Browne
... moves along, Gay as a bridegroom, as a giant strong. How his unweari'd labour he repeats, Returns at morning, and at eve retreats; And by the distribution of his light, Now gives to man the day, and now the night: Night, when the drowsy swain, and trav'ler cease Their daily toil, and sooth their limbs with ease; When all the weary sons of woe restrain Their yielding cares with slumber's silken chain, Solace sad grief, and lull reluctant pain. And while the sun, ne'er covetous of ...
— The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V. • Theophilus Cibber
... he tells ther truth, fer I hes seen him handle ther ribbons, and he does it prime too; he are the Pony Rider who they calls Buff'ler Billy," said ...
— Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. - Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood • Prentiss Ingraham
... a 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 an' stuff in ...
— God's Good Man • Marie Corelli
... 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 the price is ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... sing'ler circumstance about this here door, sir, that it von't shut without banging,' replied the conductor; and he opened the door very wide, and shut it again with a terrific bang, in ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... as to you!" Silas turned on the schoolmaster. "Your offence in gineral is bein' a northern abolitionist. Besides which, your offences in partic'ler is these. Not contented with teachin' the Academy, which was well enough, since it is necessary that a few should have larnin', so the may know how to govern the rest,—not contented with that, you must run the thing into the ground, by settin' up a evenin' school, and offerin' to larn readin', ...
— Cudjo's Cave • J. T. Trowbridge
... later he sat on a stool on the verandah, smoking a clean clay pipe. Just before the sunset meal Mrs Myers asked, 'Is that trav'ler there yet, Mary?' ...
— Joe Wilson and His Mates • Henry Lawson |
