" Deale ," if an interjection (?), may possibly stand for " Deâ ," or " Ouy Deâ , Yes, truly! verily!" &c. (See Cotgrave in v. Deâ .)
— from Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various
I often told you then that you would one day or other discover your mistake, and I hoped not experimentally.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 2 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill
That's the first ring at our own doorbell, our own doorbell, you know; and hasn't it a musical ring?
— from Patty at Home by Carolyn Wells
Hostess looks delighted— Out of doors you rush; Sit down at the crossing, In a sea of slush.
— from Point Lace and Diamonds by George Augustus Baker
Mars Jeems say su't'nly, en gun Solomon a pass en a note ter de oberseah on de yuther plantation, en sont Solomon down ter Robeson County wid a hoss en buggy fer ter fetch his junesey back.
— from The Conjure Woman by Charles W. (Charles Waddell) Chesnutt
‘Oh yes,’ said Maura cheerfully; ‘it is not really dark out of doors yet.’
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge
The charge looks a grave one, good reader, and perhaps already some notion is trotting through your head about forgery or embezzlement; you think of widows rendered desolate, or orphans defrauded; you lament over the hard-earned pittance of persevering industry lost to its possessor; and, in your heart, you acknowledge that there may have been some cause for the partition of Poland, and that the Emperor of the Russias, like another monarch, may not be half so black as he is painted.
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever
Should the sky be dark and frowning, and the restless winds be mowning, [67] With the breakers' thunder drowning all the laughter and the glee; And the day should prove a drencher, out of doors you will not ventcher,
— from Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
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