"Toon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it was labor, the cow-puncher perceived, and Billy no seasoned expert. "See here," said Lin, stooping, "I'll show yu' how it's done. He's playin' that toon cross-eyed enough to steer anybody crooked. There. Keep your blacking soft, and work ...
— Lin McLean • Owen Wister
... goin' to hear somethin' like. The New Jersey Harmonic Society is agoin' to sing 'When first I saw her face in 1616.' I don't like none of your operas. That 'inflammation' may be a big thing,' but give me some old-fashioned toon." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870 • Various
... knees, At the North we don't make no distinctions o' colour; You can all take a lick at our shoes wen you please," Sez John C. Calhoun, sez he;— Sez Mister Jarnagin, "They wunt hev to larn agin, They all on 'em know the old toon," sez he. ...
— The Biglow Papers • James Russell Lowell
... minutes gang, wee Rab Cries out frae' neatn the claes, "Mither, mak' Tarn gie ower at ance, He's kittlin wi' his taes.", The mischief's in that Tam for tricks, He'd bother half the toon, But aye I hap them up an' ...
— The Canadian Elocutionist • Anna Kelsey Howard
... Ah keh ah toon me nick ah keeng e mah me quom ah kik e kewh me zeh ah mik e newh me squeh ahn doohm e qua me tigk ah nungk I yahdt nah maih ah owh kah yawsk ne gigk ah pa ke tahn ne peh ah pweh ke quis ne peeng ah sin ke nwazhe ne sing ah tick ...
— Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages - To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words • John Summerfield |
