twitty

Updated: June 9, 2025

"When the party was on shore and the boat safely moored, Sam Twitty began to jump about like a collie dog in charge of a flock of sheep. He had said little in the boat, but his mind had been busily at work with the contemplation of great possibilities. There was much to be done, and but little time to do it in, but Sam's soul warmed up to its work.

Frank Richard Stockton - John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

Susan Twitty, widow of William Twitty, and, as the "darts of Cupid" are often irresistible, he married her, and the union proved to be a happy one.

C. L. Hunter - Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical

Then, steaming to the north-east, we ran five miles to Turtle Cove, formerly Turtle Corner, a shallow bay, whose nearest point is "Twitty Twa Bush," the baptismal effort of some English trader.

Sir Richard Francis Burton - Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2

Sam Twitty made a motion as if he would dance a little in his slippered feet. "'That's jes like runnin' across a dead whale what's jes expired of too much fat. All you've got to do is to cut it up and try it down. The fust thing Cap'n Abner does is to run into a widow woman that'll suit him, I believe, better than anybody he'll meet, if he cruises around Thompsontown for a week.

Frank Richard Stockton - John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

"'One of the Twitty boys rides down an' puts the eighty or more dogs into the bresh. The rest of us lays back an' strains our eyes. Thar he is! A shout goes up as we descries the panther stealin' off by a far corner. He's headin' along a hollow that's full of bresh an' baby timber an' runs parallel with the pike.

Alfred Henry Lewis - Wolfville Nights

In a moment Abner's head was out of the window. "'Cap'n Abner, said Sam, 'I'm goin' with you. "Abner did not immediately answer, but presently he replied: 'Look here, Sam Twitty; you come around after breakfast and tell me that ag'in. "Promptly after breakfast Sam appeared. "'Look a' here, said Captain Abner, when they had lighted their morning pipes, 'that ain't a bad notion of yours.

Frank Richard Stockton - John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein

'You won't want me and her to sit on the back seat, and it wouldn't look jes right for you an' her to be in front, and me behind all by myself, as if I was company. "'Don't know, said Captain Abner. 'We'll get her fust, and then let her sit where she wants to. "'There's one thing I wouldn't like to see, said Sam Twitty, 'and that's you and me sittin' behind, and her a-drivin'.

Frank Richard Stockton - John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein