"Gotta" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... home with the wimmin folks, Luck," he bawled unabashed. "Night air's bad fer 'im, and the trail ain't goin' to be smooth goin',—not if we gotta ride our ...
— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower
... teamster one evening. "We used to think you wasn't human exactly." He laughed heartily. "Gotta get acquainted with a ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... me, strikin' with his claws an' bill. The dogs come when they heard the shot an' he whipped 'em off. Every time he struck one of 'em he (the dog) would holler like he'd been speared. The other boys wanted to kill it but I gotta a long pole an' got it on him so's it held him down. We'd found out by this time that one wing was broke by my shot. So we jess hold of the tips of his wings an' led him to the house. His wing spread was 'bout six or eight feet. When I got him ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - From Interviews with Former Slaves - Kentucky Narratives • Works Projects Administration
... get more batteries to-night. Dangerous, too. Storm's going down. Bolsheviki coming in. Natives prowling an' yellow men, don't know about. Gotta ...
— Panther Eye • Roy J. Snell
... grumpily, "I don't like 'mights'. Why can't they leave a man alone and let him do his work? Why do they gotta—" ...
— All Day Wednesday • Richard Olin
... "I gotta be hittin' the trail back to the Half Moon real soon. I wanted to ask you a question firs'." Again he hesitated, again broke out suddenly: "I take it a lady ain't the same in no particulars as ...
— Under Handicap - A Novel • Jackson Gregory
... Friend, regretfully. "I don't believe I could hold out that long. But, if I speak to him inside a week, well—! Well, I gotta be ...
— Indiscretions of Archie • P. G. Wodehouse
... like it?" he sniveled, with lachrymose sentimentality. "I gotta make a living, haven't I? Here's you and me, two pretty decent young fellers, having to live on a fake. Well," he added with solacing philosophy, "if we didn't get it, ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... you big ape," he grated, "you ain't man enough to fight the way men fight. Gotta use dart guns, ...
— Vulcan's Workshop • Harl Vincent
... "Is that you? This is Billie. Listen. I gotta plan. A bunch of us is goin' out to Gedney to supper to-night. We're goin' to leave right after the ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... packer in our room. She cannot speak a word of English. Annie gives a sigh audible from one end of the room to the next. "My Gawd!" moans Annie to the entire floor. "If this here Eyetalian don't learn English pretty soon I gotta learn Eyetalian. I can't stand here like a dead one all day with nobody to talk to." Pauline might perhaps be reasoning that, after all, why learn English, since she would never get a silent moment in which to practice any ...
— Working With the Working Woman • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... up. Mistah Falk, he tell stew'd he want pie and he gotta have pie, and stew'd he come and he say, 'Frank,' says he, 'dat Mistah Falk, his langwidge is like he is in liquo'. He gotta have pie.' 'All right,' Ah say, 'if he gotta have pie, he gotta wait twill Ah make pie. Cap'n, he et hearty o' pie ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes |
