discour'ged

Updated: May 8, 2025

An' ef it hadn't o' been dat I knowed what a cook she was, tell de trufe, de Widder Simpson's cross-eye would o' discour'ged me off enti'ely. "But now," he continued, chuckling; "but now I done got usen ter it; it's purty ter me seem like hit's got a searchin' glance dat goes out'n its way ter fin' me."

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches