"Leastwise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the Alaska shores and a bit farther from a point on the Russian shore, which the natives call On-na-tak, though what the place is like h'I can't say, never 'aving been there. Far's h'I know, no white man's been there, h'either; leastwise, not in our generation." ...
— Lost In The Air • Roy J. Snell
... 'Squire's swamp-hole first; there's ten or twelve cock there, I know; I see them there myself last Sunday; and then acrost them buck-wheat stubbles, and the big bog meadow, there's a drove of quail there; two or three bevys got in one, I reckon; leastwise I counted thirty-three last Friday was a week; and through Seer's big swamp, over to the ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... "Nate Griggs ain't goin' ter gin his cornsent ter nobody ter dig ennywhar down the ravine, ef it air inside o' his lines," he said confidently, "'kase I—'kase he— leastwise, 'kase gold hev been fund hyar lately, an' he hev ...
— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)
... an interestin' errand, too," chirped Elias. "Leastwise, I 'magine 'twas interestin' to you." ...
— The Wall Between • Sara Ware Bassett
... belt seed I, sir; leastwise while you were in my hands. I had you round the waist all the way up, so no one could have took it off. Why should they? And I undressed you myself; and nothing, save your presence, was there to get off, but ...
— Two Years Ago, Volume I • Charles Kingsley
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