a-histed

Updated: May 5, 2025

No; I think better of 'em; they are a-goin' to carry out the idee of that silver image in the gold of practical justice, I believe. If I hadn't thought so, I would a-histed up my umbrell and hit that septer of hern, and knocked that globe out from under her feet.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair