dilatin

Updated: May 20, 2025

An' he goes on dilatin' to the effect that he stops six of 'em for good with the six loads in his weepon, an' then makes it a stand-off on the remainin' fourteen with the empty gun. "'It is the slumberin' terrors of my eye, I reckons, says this Lyin' Amos.

Alfred Henry Lewis - Wolfville Days