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Why, Noble Dill isn't hardly any taller'n I am myself, and he hasn't got any muscle partickyourly. Aunt Julia wouldn't look at him!" "She does, too! My goodness, how could he sit on the porch, right in front of her, for two or three hours at a time, without her lookin' at him?" "I don't care," Herbert insisted stubbornly. "They said Aunt Julia wouldn't.
"Tell me," he said, addressing the stranger "What like is this Rantall? Please to tescripe his features." "Well," drawled the person addressed, after a short pause "there ain't much to describe about him. He's a tallish feller fully four inches taller'n I be. He's broad and stout a big man ginerally. Weighs, I should say, not much under a hundred and ninety.
Thar wuz only one feller in our reg'ment taller'n me, an' that wuz John Logan 'long John' we called him to 'stinguish him frum t'other John Logan, who wuz oncommon tall too, but nigh two inch shorter than 'long John."
Said the parish wouldn't be the same without her, and about her pretty reading and all. See here what she give me." Mrs. James unrolled a violet petticoat. "Good as new, almost," she said, looking critically at the hem. "Specially her being taller'n me. So what's not can be cut away, and no loss.
Well, if he wan't any taller'n I be he showed good jedgment.... Zacheus and Galushy and Primrose!... Godfreys!" Primmie was shocked. "Why, Zach Bloomer!" she exclaimed. "The idea of your talkin' so about a person's name you never met but just now in your lifetime." Zacheus regarded the owner of the name. "No offense meant and none given, Mr. Bangs," he observed. "Eh? That's right, ain't it?"
"Among other things, if you're hankerin' to know, thar's a heap of dress material that I brought all the way from London fer Martha Blagg. Likewise a dinky pair of shoes with silver buckles, and heels on 'em that'll make you inches taller'n you are now.
So gran'mammy tuk me to raise, an' I ain't nevah wanted no mammy but her. Nevah knowed who my daddy was, an' I reckon my mammy didn't know, neithah. I bawn at Richard, Vahjinny. My sistah an' brothah be'n dead too many years to count; I de las' o' de fam'ly. I kin remember 'fore de fust war start. I had three chillen, boys, taller'n me when freedom come.
"D'you reckon this yer chap was a Injun, then?" "Certainly," Kiddie answered, "an Injun, young an' tall." "H'm!" murmured Rube, not satisfied. "You just guessin' all that, Kiddie, or have you figured it out?" "I've figured it out," returned Kiddie. "Look at his thigh bone the only bone that's left intact. It's longer'n mine, an' I ain't a pigmy. Must have been taller'n I am.
Manassas on Sunday Kernstown on Sunday forced marches on Sunday Sunday train to Richmond. Language failed. There were long lines of cars, some upon the main track, others on the siding. The infantry piled in, piled atop. Out of each window came three or four heads. "You fellows on the roof, you're taller'n we are! Air we the first train? That's good, we'll be the first to say howdy to McClellan.
Claribel, a pale, dark-eyed child, also dressed in her best gingham, walked seriously by her grandmother's side. Lucindy was waiting for them at the door. "I declare!" she called, delightedly. "I was 'most afraid you'd forgot to come! Well, Claribel, if you 'ain't grown! They'll have to put a brick on your head, or you'll be taller'n grandma."
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