1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 151: A slow voice said Reach for the sky, Yank, or I’ll nachully drill yuh. His hands flew up.at drill, v.1
1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body 367: You ought to be et. We’ll eat you up to the house when it’s mealin’ time .at eat, v.
1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 40: When the news of Beckhams death spread from bar to bar, It was like putting loco-weed into whiskey.at locoweed, n.
1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 73: Seward and Chase’ll do for my pair of pumpkins .at pumpkin, n.
1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 260: Stumpy Grant is a mole / Gnawing at Vicksberg.at stumpy, n.2
1927 S.V. Benét John Brown’s Body (1928) 72: Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet, [...] Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales.at tall story (n.) under tall, adj.