"Owel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Tennie's peartness," his mother sarcastically rejoined. "'Pears ter me like the chile hain't never hed good sense; afore she could walk she'd crawl along the floor arter ye, an' holler like a squeech-owEL ef ye went off an' lef' her. An' ye air plumb teched in the head too, Birt, ter set sech store by Tennie. I look ter see her killed, or stunted, some day, ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles) |
