conscientousness

Updated: May 18, 2025

And right here, while the past wuz a-pressin' so clost to us, that we wuz almost took back there in the body our minds wuz there, way, way back When sudden, swift, wuz we brung back from the past brung back to conscientousness, as it were, by two forms and two voices.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair

I groaned and sithed when he told me, and sez I, "What won't you do next, Josiah Allen?" But this wuz hereafter, and to pick up the thread of my story agin. Wall, Josiah wuzn't killed, he wuz only stunted, and he soon recovered his conscientousness. And before half a hour passed away he wuz a-talkin' as pert as you please, a-boastin' of how he would tell it in Jonesville.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair