um-h'm

Updated: May 29, 2025

Brown, I mean for the last few days, while the storm was goin' on?" "Um-h'm," gloomily. "How about you two over to the bungalow? You've kept dry and snug, I judge." "Yes." "I didn't know but you might be kind of nervous and scart when 'twas blowin'. All alone so." "Humph! I've got used to bein' alone. As for Miss Ruth, I don't think she's scart of anythin'."

Joseph Crosby Lincoln - The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights

So when grand'mère and her two friends with Sidney and Mingo returned from the privateer to the hotel they were opposite neighbors to the Chapdelaines and almost without another friend, in a city among a people on fire with war. Then, pretty soon " the fair narrator stopped and significantly smiled. Chester twinkled. "Um-h'm," he said, "your grandpère's heart became another city on fire."

George Washington Cable - The Flower of the Chapdelaines