sparrer-grass

Updated: May 20, 2025

It's a pleasure to pass a little joke with Miss Phoebe; she's got sech a good ear to ketch their p'ints. But, come to growin', Sonny never asked nobody no odds. He thess stayed stock-still ez long ez he found pleasure in bein' a little runt, an' then he humped hisself an' shot up same ez a sparrer-grass stalk. It gives me pleasure to look up to him the way I haf to.

Ruth McEnery Stuart - Sonny, a Christmas Guest

Then he uttered but one remark, seeming to think some observation necessary, and it fell from his lips in the pause of a social discussion. "I always eat sparrer-grass with my fingers," he had said, and wondered at the general hilarity.

Sir Max Pemberton - Aladdin of London : or, Lodestar

Rabbit an' Miss Rabbit got up soom, 'fo' day, en raided on a gyarden like Miss Sally's out dar, en got some cabbiges, en some roas'n years, en some sparrer-grass, en dey fix up a smashin' dinner. Bimeby one er de little Rabbits, playin' out in de back-yard, come runnin' in hollerin', 'Oh, ma! oh, ma! I seed Mr.

Joel Chandler Harris - Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings