• When was a lonely heart more truly comforted?
• My two assistants abandoned work to stare open-mouthed at him.
• 'Here is Keats back again,--he has got to stay with you women and get l'arning if it kills him dead!'
• 'Genealogical' and 'irreconcilable' were child's play to him, 'incomprehensibility,' a bagatelle.
• I sat wondering what if anything would be the proper literary milk for my babes.
• The table was overturned, chairs were flying, bedlam had broken loose.
• 'By dogs, now, did you ever see anybody look as good as me?'
• 'Just feel my muscle,' he said, 'Oh, I'm so nervy!'
• 'Fight, dogs, you haint no kin, 'F you kill one another, taint no sin!'
• 'That's where I keep lookout of moonlight nights when war is on.'
• As I looked, I said to myself over and over, 'Is it possible this is a slayer of men, an eluder and defier of the law?'
• 'That 'ere little Iry is a-giving Jason the best whipping down in the stable lot ever you seed.'
• Not until she got out of the tall weeds, and into the branch, was the joyful discovery made that nine little new pigs followed her closely and shamefacedly.
• 'I got a dead tree up the hollow I practice on all the time.'
• The first real snow yesterday, and the boys wild in consequence.
• 'Blant he rushed on 'em like a robbed she-bear, routing 'em in no time.'
• 'I allow they shot me up a little too, by these here rags on my head.'
• Blant caught the dying Rich in his arms.
• Dag gone me, he's got use enough for little Dilsey, by Ned!'
• I kotch him at it one time.
• 'Take it, Joe, I refuse to touch it, I have shot my last shoot!'
• He sat in church the very picture of elegance, the real direction of his thoughts indicated by an occasional ardent glance across the aisle.
• 'Well, dad burn your looks, where'd you git all them marvles you been selling?'
• Nucky's voice rang out sharp and clear ... 'Make for them spruce pines! Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!'

MOTHERING ON PERILOUS