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Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 162: I go for the dog, the wise old dog, / That knowingly takes his ease [...] Cares not a pin, in his wise old head, / For either dog in the fight.at not care a pin, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 162: I go for the dog, the wise old dog, / That knowingly takes his ease [...] Cares not a pin, in his wise old head, / For either dog in the fight. Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 107: Miss Lize tole us you’d make a scatter if you knew ‘no ’count’ chillern was a-bein’ fed at the cook-tent.at no-account, adj.
Tenting on the Plains (rev.) (1895) 183: He said, an alligator, so I started off to see the animal, and when I found it, what do you think it was, but an old Government mule that had died because it was played out!at alligator, n.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 372: Miss Libbie, sure as you’re born, they was Indians gettin’ out of the way.at sure as you’re a foot high under sure as..., phr.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 126: My husband [...] saying ‘the officers will surely think you a “feather-bed soldier”,’ which term of derision was applied to a man who sought soft places for duty and avoided hardships.at feather-bed soldier (n.) under feather-bed, adj.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 181: I have known the General to ‘bone up,’ as his West Point phrase expressed it, on the smallest details of some question at issue.at bone, v.3
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 92: I was constantly mystified as I considered how our officers [...] could, as they expressed it, ‘buckle down’ to the dull, exhausting days of a monotonous march.at buckle down (v.) under buckle, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 388: All the boys done bully.at bully, adv.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 21: Texas [...] was unhappily unaware that the war was over, and continued a career of bushwhacking and lawlessness.at bushwhack, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 165: Jayhawkers, bandits and bushwhackers had everything their own way for a time.at bushwhacker, n.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 230: Hullo, there! joined the doe-boys, eh? How do you like hoofing it? [Ibid.] 516: A ‘doughboy’ is a small, round doughnut served to sailors on shipboard, generally with hash. Early in the Civil War the term was applied to the large globular brass buttons on the infantry uniform, from which it passed, by a natural transition, to the infantrymen themselves.at doughboy, n.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 388: All the boys done bully, but Corporal Jackson—he flinked. The way he flinked was, to wait till the boys had drove the Injuns two miles, and then he hollered, ‘Gin it to ’em!’.at flink, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 388: All the boys done bully, but Corporal Jackson — he flinked. The way he flinked was, to wait till the boys had drove the Injuns two miles, and then he hollered, ‘Gin it to ’em!’.at give it to, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 388: There’s a gone nigger, for a certainty!at gone, adj.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 289: He didn’t like hard-tack no better than they did.at hard tack (n.) under hard, adj.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 49: Oh la, honey, don’t you be skeart.at honey, n.1
Tenting on the Plains rev. (1895) 230: Hullo, there! joined the doe-boys, eh? How do you like hoofing it?at hoof, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 333: Toughed it out here two years.at tough it (out), v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 165: Jayhawkers, bandits and bushwhackers had everything their own way for a time.at jayhawker, n.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 373: The stage-station liquor was concocted from drugs and had power to lay out even a hard-drinking old cavalry-man like a dead person in what seemed no time at all.at lay out, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 30: He jest pushed down his ole hat, and went after ’em linkerty-clink.at lickety-split, adv.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 90: Eliza ‘mammied’ and nursed me.at mammy, n.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 181: He’s a good enough fellow, only he’s an onery scamp of a Republican.at ornery, adj.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 183: He said, an alligator, so I started off to see the animal, and when I found it, what do you think it was, but an old Government mule that had died because it was played out!at played (out), adj.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 107: When I got better, didn’t he go and say I was playin’ off on him, just to get a big drink of whiskey?at play on (v.) under play, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 118: The citizens pooh-pooh at our fear of scorpions.at pooh-pooh, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 117: After narrating the downfall of his ‘rag house,’ he dryly remarked that [...] he was not going to have much uninterrupted sleep.at rag house (n.) under rag, n.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 31: But whatever she’s a-doin’ with that old scrub nigger, I can’t make out.at scrub, n.1
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 182: He [Autie] had to have a tooth drawn [...] The forceps slipped off, and he [dentist] had to make a second trial. He pulled it out, and Autie never even scrunched.at scrunch, v.
Tenting on the Plains (rev. edn 1895) 186: Indeed, I had taken quite a shine to her.at shine, n.3
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