easin

Updated: June 27, 2025

I suspicioned he'd go to the station wid the gurl's kit at the end av the first piece. Twas the kit that flusthered me, for I knew for a Capt'n to go trapesing about the impire wid the Lord knew what av a truso on his arrum was nefarious, an' wud be worse than easin' the flag, so far as the talk aftherward wint." "Old on, Mulvaney. Wot's truso?" said Ortheris. "You're an oncivilized man, me son.

Rudyard Kipling - Indian Tales

First I knew, I saw 'em grouped along the side where the companionway stairs was swung Auntie, Old Hickory, and Captain Killam. Rupert seems to be explainin' something. Then in a minute or two the men begin easin' Auntie down into one of the launches tied to the boat boom, and the next I see them go chuggin' off into the moonlight. I hunts up Vee and passes her the word.

Sewell Ford - Wilt Thou Torchy

I'll be soon out of it; out of it out there, alongside of Bill " "Easy there, matey." The Snipe glanced over his shoulder and laid his cards face downward. "Here, let me give the bed a shake up. It'll ease yer." "It'll make me quiet, you mean. Plucky deal you care about easin' me, any of yer!" "Get out with yer nonsense! Dan didn' mean it."

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts

I always tell folks I've got five child'n, counting Mr. Martin the youngest. The more bluster they have, the more boys they be. Now Marthy knew that about brother Isr'el, an' she always ruled him by love an' easin' of him down from them high perches he was always settin' upon. Everything was always right with her an' all wrong with him when they was young, but she could always say the right word."

Sarah Orne Jewett - The Life of Nancy

I'd got 'em, an' started back with 'em easin' 'em down that little gully near the river an' bein' plumb out of sight from the shallow when I seen a trail herd comin' west! "Lawler, I watched 'em. I seen 'em cross the river, still headin' west, easin' off a little to the south. They was above me, an' they was a glow in the north, behind 'em an' they stood out plain an' clear.

Charles Alden Seltzer - The Trail Horde

I said that right out openly to Miss Plank, and to everybody else. Bein' married happy, I felt free to speak my mind about bacheldors, or anything. Of course, bein' a widder, Miss Plank felt more hampered. And he wuz good to me in other ways, besides easin' my cares and nerves at the table.

Marietta Holley - Samantha at the World's Fair