mountaynious

Updated: May 17, 2025

“Then you didn’t feel frightened, Mr. Kirby?” said the counsel for the prisoner. “Me! no,” said Billy, casting his eyes oven his own huge frame with evident self-satisfaction; “I’m not to be skeared so easy.” “You look like a hardy man; where were you born, sir?” “Varmount State; ‘tis a mountaynious place, but there’s a stiff soil, and it’s pretty much wooded with beech and maple.”

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers

“Why, I don’t know, Judge,” returned the man he ad dressed; “it seems to me, if there’s plenty of anything in this mountaynious country, it’s the trees.

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers