"Seyh" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the points of his black mustache and regarded her askance, smiling crookedly. "Yoh 'fraid for trus' me, that's why I promise," he said at last. "Me, I don' need padre to mumble-mumble foolish words before I can be happy. Yoh 'fraid of Luck Leen'sey, that's why I promise. Now yoh come way up here, so luck don' matter no more. Yoh ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... any thorough, or even pedagogic knowledge of the engendure, growth, and affinities of the noble language about whose mesalliances they profess (like Dean Alford) to be so solicitous. If they had their way—! 'Doch es sey,' says Lessing, 'dass jene gotbische Hoeflichkeit eine unentbehrliche Tugend des heutigen Umganges ist. Soll sie darum unsere Schriften eben so schaal und falsch machen als unsern Umgang?' And Drayton was not far wrong in ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
