sho-o-o

Updated: May 28, 2025

What do YOU know of Mr. Jo Corbin, when you don't even know that he's from Shelbyville, and as good a Suth'ner as you, and if he hasn't got niggers it's because they don't use them in his parts? Yo'r for all the world like one o' Mrs. Johnson's fancy bantams that ain't quit of the shell afore they square off at their own mother. My goodness! Sho! Sho-o-o!"

Bret Harte - Colonel Starbottle's Client

Here followed a stumble, the clatter of stones down the mountain-side, and an oath so very human and undignified that it at once relieved the bowlders of any complicity of expression. The voices, too, were close together now, and unexpectedly in quite another locality. "Anything up?" "Looey Napoleon's declared war agin Germany." "Sho-o-o!"

Bret Harte - The Twins of Table Mountain