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Sketches and Eccentricities 24: He bade adieu to home, and, in the backwoods phrase, began to knock about.at knock about, v.1
Sketches and Eccentricities 24: He bade adieu to home, and, in the backwoods phrase, began to knock about. Sketches and Eccentricities 52: I tell you what, it made me feel quite all-overish.at all-overish, adj.1
Sketches and Eccentricities 157: They then take a fog-cutter.at antifogmatic, n.
Sketches and Eccentricities 24: In the slang of the backwoods, one swore [...] that he would never be ‘a case’ — that is flat, without a dollar.at case, n.1
Sketches and Eccentricities 145: I can kill more lickur [...] and cool out more men than any man you can find in all Kentucky.at cool out, v.1
Sketches and Eccentricities 41: My old misses long time ago, / She took me down de hill side to jump Jim Crow.at jump Jim Crow (v.) under Jim Crow, n.
Sketches and Eccentricities 23: In the slang of the backwoods, one swore that he would never be ‘one-eyed’ – that is dishonest.at one-eyed, adj.
Sketches and Eccentricities 60: He awoke next morning flat without a dollar.at flat, adj.2
Sketches and Eccentricities 39: Sal jumped up, spun around, and swore she could ‘go her death’ upon a jig.at go one’s death (v.) under go, v.
Sketches and Eccentricities 40: But didn’t I go the whole animal?at go the whole animal (v.) under go the whole..., v.
Sketches and Eccentricities 145: I can kill more lickur [...] and cool out more men than any man you can find in all Kentucky.at kill, v.
Sketches and Eccentricities 165: I determined to obey one of our backwoods sayings: ‘Lay low and keep dark, stranger’.at lay low, v.
Sketches and Eccentricities 41: My ole misses she don’t like me, / Bekase I don’t eat de black eye pea.at missis, n.
Sketches and Eccentricities 144: He was a right smart koon.at right, adv.
Sketches and Eccentricities 144: In ten minutes he yelled enough, and swore I was a ripstavur [...] Said he, ‘Stranger, you are a beauty’.at rip snorter, n.
Sketches and Eccentricities 93: I socked my knife into the old bear.at sock, v.1
Sketches and Eccentricities 144: I cum acrost a fellow floatin’ down stream settin’ in the stern of his boat fast asleep. Said I ‘Hello, stranger!’.at stranger, n.
Sketches and Eccentricities 103: I cut him up, threw away some of him, and brought at four turns as much as I could tote.at tote, v.1
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