undahstan

Updated: May 26, 2025

Don't think fo' a moment that they are not, but can you undahstan', I wondah, how eyes can be ve'y beautiful and yet of a cold and steely blue that sometimes freezes the blood in youah veins? A little too light, perhaps, and that gives them the look of cleah cold cut steel.

Zoé Anderson Norris - The Way of the Wind

I listened to you attentively, but, for the life of me, I couldn't make out what you were talking about." "Kain't yo'?" the negro demanded, mockingly. "Den Ah done reckon Ah must be a good deal of a scholar, ef Ah can talk so dat er w'ite quality gemmen kain't undahstan' me." Mr. Sambo Ebony chuckled gleefully in appreciation of his own joke.

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - The Young Engineers on the Gulf : Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater

Then Mr. Sambo Ebony slouched on to the scene. "Hullo, Tar!" was the ex-foreman's careless greeting. "Now, doan' get too prescrumptious wid me," warned the black man, with an evil grin that displayed his big, white teeth. "Yo' an' me hab done been good frien's, an' pulled togedder. But Ah want yo' to undahstan', Mr. White Man, dat I doan' allow yo' to call me Tar Baby."

H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock - The Young Engineers on the Gulf : Or, The Dread Mystery of the Million Dollar Breakwater