"Sass" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manes an' tails—muled every durned critter uv 'em. Stranger, hit was Abe. An' as fer women-folks—well, Abe was the ill favoredest feller I ever see, an' he couldn't talk; still, Abe was sassy, an' you know how sass counts with the gals; an' Abe's whisperin' come in jes as handy as any feller's settin' up; so 'f ever you seed a man with a Winchester a-lookin' fer the feller who had cut him out, stranger, he ...
— 'Hell fer Sartain' and Other Stories • John Fox, Jr.
... said Seth gruffly, although the lurking smile on his face took off from the effect of his words, "none o' your sass, Jasper, or I'll keelhaul you, and make you fancy ...
— Picked up at Sea - The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek • J.C. Hutcheson
... save us!" Jock rolled from side to side. "If you don't beat all for gol-durned sass. Why, Tate will sue you for damages if that great American novel ever strikes his vision. Oil! Thunderation; and poisonous whiskey, and doctored beer. Was it Society or Settlement what let light in on you, about ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... they have cabbages to throw away here I shall be likely to git a good biled dinner, and mebby a biled puddin' with lemon sass." ...
— Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife • Marietta Holley
... "Don't sass your elders, naughty girl. Oh, my heavens, I've been five months in New England, and have behaved like a perfect gentlewoman all the time! Now I'm due for an attack of New Yorkitis!" Constance rushed into the ...
— The Nest Builder • Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
... Tim Crane—nun o' yer sass to me. There's yer hat on that are table, and here's the door—and the sooner you put on one and march out o' t'other, the better it'll be for you. And I advise you afore you try to git married agin, to go out West ...
— Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor - Volume I • Various
... of the guard, a German, pushed him back. The Suliote struck the sergeant; they closed and struggled. The Suliote drew his pistol; the German wrenched it from him, and emptied the pan. At this moment a Swedish adventurer, Captain Sass, seeing the quarrel, ordered the Suliote to be taken to the guard-room. The Suliote would have departed, but the German still held him. The Swede drew his sabre; the Suliote his other pistol. The Swede struck him with the flat of his sword; the Suliote ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt
... What the Holy Moses did you shoot my thumb for? durn you! Don't you guess I've any feelin', you onery idiot? Needn't be skeered, Margaret, I'll make ground mustard out of anybody that dares touch a hair of your head with his sass!" ...
— A Dream of Empire - Or, The House of Blennerhassett • William Henry Venable
... nie sein Brod mit Thranen ass, Wer nie die kummervollen Nachte Auf seinem Bette einsam sass, Der kennt euch nicht, ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... not no sailorman, neither, stab him right in the back o' the neck with one o' these hyar Sweden knives with a ring on the handle. He was a planter down Zamboanga way, an' a genelman like you, in white clothes. He come sassin' round Mr. Peth on the pier. He won't sass ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore
... the day an' night. If folks at 'tother end o' town wants to speak to me they knows where to find me. I'm a respictable widdy lady what keeps to home and minds my own washin', and they can't no man nor woman, nuther, get a chance to sass me through any mash-ine. No, sir! I know that young Early. He's got a scheme to see all thet's a-goin' on amongst us day and night, and I won't have it. Tain't decent, and they ain't no law on his side. So jest git along with ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry |
