"Darter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Darter," says she, "put you them there pies on the shelf, and leave 'em there a little, and they'll come again."—She meant, you know, ...
— English Fairy Tales • Joseph Jacobs (coll. & ed.)
... Robertson's cook, an' her darter, Callie, was his housekeeper, an' George an' Walter was mechanics. George ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Mississippi Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... be sure! that is a surprise! I knowed the judge was a- going to see his darter; but I had no idee that you was a-going 'long of him," ...
— Self-Raised • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... along the banks; and on every dead tree and piece of rock may be seen one or two species of the web-footed 'Plotus', darter, or snake-bird. They sit most of the day sunning themselves over the stream, sometimes standing erect with their wings outstretched; occasionally they may be seen engaged in fishing by diving, and, as they swim about, their bodies are so much ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... parson said to me t'other daa, "John," sez he, "din't yeou nivver hev a darter?" "Sar," sez I, "I had one once, but she ha' been dead close on thatty years." And then I towd him about my ...
— Two Suffolk Friends • Francis Hindes Groome
... Dirck is Dirck, and I am Jason. The shortest way is commonly the best way, and I like given-names among friends. Have I any particular reason?—Yes; plenty on 'em, and them that's good. In the first place, no man has a daughter,"—darter a la Jason,—"that he does not begin to think of setting her out in the world, accordin' to his abilities; then, as I said before, these folks from home" (hum) "are awful rich, and rich husbands are always satisfactory to parents, whatever they may ...
— Satanstoe • James Fenimore Cooper
... coomed round i' this way. One of t' chaps from here had a darter who had married and gone to live nigh t' coast, and he went vor a week ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty
... he had one ounly darter, The fairest my two eyes e'er see, She steele the keys of her father's prisin, And swore Lord Bateman she would let ...
— The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman • Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray |
