"Rale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Now that's rale kind of ye," answered Mrs. Gilligan, as she dried her hands and took the fish. "Just loike my Pat used to catch afore he was kilt on ...
— Randy of the River - The Adventures of a Young Deckhand • Horatio Alger Jr.
... told me, 'I've done had sixteen picaninnies, Mars' Cap'n, but I nebber seed none o' dem after dey was 'bout six weeks old. Dey was in de nussery, an' I was a rale smart cotton-picker, and couldn't be spar'd to nuss ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... crow, called a 'creak,' or anything like the Rail's more provokingly continuous objurgation?—compare notes below on Rallus Aquaticus. I find, with some alarm, in Buffon, that one with a longer tail, the Cau-rale or Tail-rail of Cayenne, is there called 'Little Peacock of the Roses;' but its cry is represented by the liquid syllables 'Piolo,' while the black-spotted one of the Society Islands—Magellan's 'Water-quail'—says 'Poo-a-nee,' and the ...
— Love's Meinie - Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds • John Ruskin
... be killed for this!" cried Father Pat. "And where's the lad? What've ye done t' him? God help ye if ye've worked him rale harm!" ...
— The Rich Little Poor Boy • Eleanor Gates
... would ye be thinkin' that a lot of bog-trottin' counterfeiters'd be havin' a rale aeroplane?" burst out Andy Flinn, who had up to now been unable to give any expression to ...
— The Banner Boy Scouts Afloat • George A. Warren
... Bridget, "she can't stir her legs one bit. She's rale poorly, now I tell you, an' this child's been looking after her ...
— A Modern Cinderella • Amanda M. Douglas
... pale. However, it all ended like a modern Irish jig, in a harmless "whoop!" and the fiery dancers quietly returned to their places about their mistress. "That, your Majesty," said Grace, proudly, "is rale Irish dancing." ...
— Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children • Grace Greenwood
... a-tooked us all aback so," said old Zebedee. "'T seems to me I'm foaced to turn it round and round afore I can swaller it for rale right-down truth." ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various |
