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"So, Mister Gascoyne, ye've got sich an oncommon cargo o' conceit in ye yet, that you actually think ye could go back without so much as `By your leave!" While Jo was speaking he bared to the shoulder an arm that was the reverse of infantine, and, holding it up, said slowly
Now I should a' said he'd a' bin glad to 'ear of somethin' new an' oncommon as 'twere, he likes it in the way o' flowers, an' why not in the way o' wimmin? But Passon ain't like other folk he don't git on with wimmin nohow an' the prettier they are the more he seems skeered off them."
Then you're altogether too grave and considerate-like, to care much about Judith; for, though the gal is oncommon, she is so general in her admiration, that a man need not be exalted because she happens to smile. I sometimes think the hussy loves herself better than she does anything else breathin'."
Sneak off to the Delaware villages, and say to the chiefs, and old men, and young warriors 'see, here is Wah-ta-Wah; she is safe, but a little tired; and here is the Son of Uncas, not as tired as the Honeysuckle, being stronger, but just as safe. Would he do this?" "Well, that's oncommon ingen'ous; it's cunning enough for a Mingo, himself!
"Milo, mam, Milo o' Crotona, but my pals generally calls me Tony, for short, they do." "Milo of Crotona!" repeated the Duchess, with her eyes wider than ever, "but he was a giant who slew an ox with his fist, and ate it whole!" "Why, mam, I'm oncommon fond of oxes, roasted, I am." "Well," said the Duchess, "you are the very smallest giant I ever saw."
"I ain't a-doin' dat, dough I ain't a-sputin' dat de lady is a mos' oncommon fine lookin' pusson." "I has only seed huh wid de eye of de spi'it," was the virtuous answer, "an' to dat eye all t'ings dat are good are beautiful." "Yes, suh, an' lookin' wid de cookin' eye, hit seem lak' I des fo'destinated fu' to ma'y dat ooman." "You say you ain't axe huh yit?"
How true it is that if a female woman keeps dressed up slick, piles of extra good cookin' on hand, and her house oncommon clean, and she sets down in a rockin' chair, lookin' down the road for company. She a-layin' out to cook up some vittles to put on to her empty shelves when she goes into the house, she not a-dreamin' of company at that time of day. They come!
How true it is that if a female woman keeps dressed up slick, piles of extra good cookin' on hand, and her house oncommon clean, and she sets down in a rockin' chair, lookin' down the road for company. She a-layin' out to cook up some vittles to put on to her empty shelves when she goes into the house, she not a-dreamin' of company at that time of day. They come!
'specially one a young lord oncommon fond o' me 'e were too, in 'is way, to the day 'is 'oss fell an' rolled on 'im. 'Jacob, says 'e, short like, for 'e were agoin' fast.
"Why, ye see, Losh, I was so hard druve by the p'lice that I was forced to lave wid-out sayin' good day to my ould mother, an' they tould me it almost broke her heart; but I've had wan or two screeds from the priest wid her cross at them since, and she's got over it, an' lookin' out for my returnin' bliss her sowl! an' I've sint her five pounds ivery year since I left: so ye see, Losh, I've great hope o' seein' her yit, for although she's ould she's oncommon tough, an' having come o' a long-winded stock, I've great hopes o' her."
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