"Ree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... de la the mountain-top almost without montpinto jam ne necesis, kaj la food was now no longer needful, hejmvojagxo trans la ebenajxo and on the home journey across prosperis, tiel ke Namezo staris the plain all went well, so that baldaux ree en la patrina dometo. Namezo soon stood again in his La vilagxanoj kunvenis amase kaj mother's[1] cottage. The villagers multe demandis pri lia vojagxo, flocked in crowds[2] and asked cxar neniu el ili estis iam tiel ...
— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark
... you; you're on my watch," said the Captain to Wilbur, "and I will assoom the ree-sponsibility of ...
— Moran of the Lady Letty • Frank Norris
... The Yankees take t'ree nights to march through I was afraid of dem an' clim' into a tree. One call me down an' say, "I am your frien'". He give me a piece of money an' I wasn't ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... steeng lak bumbletybees. Ah t'ink me, dat weeked leetly boy goin' for shoot more as once prob'ly—mebbe two, t'ree tam. Ah drop queek in de grass, an' Ah run—run queek! An' when Ah get home, Ah find two, t'ree, five, mebbe four hole in mah arm more beeg ...
— The Calico Cat • Charles Miner Thompson
... I did not wake them, but got my gun, and, wrapping myself in my blankets, sat up by the fire to watch the varmints and warm my feet. Presently I heard a long wild howl down in the woods, and knew by the “whirr-ree, whirr-ree” in it that it proceeded from the throat of the dreaded buffalo wolf, or Kosh-e-nee, of the prairies. There was another howl, then another, and another, and, finally, a loud chorus of a dozen. Instantly silence fell among ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... covered with trees: And they bought an owl and a useful cart, And a pound of rice, and a cranberry-tart, And a hive of silvery bees; And they bought a pig, and some green jackdaws, And a lovely monkey with lollipop paws, And forty bottles of ring-bo-ree, And no end of Stilton cheese. Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green and their hands are blue; And they went to sea in ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous
... "No, sir-ree! For you it's dieting, now and from now on. You may be able to relax your diet in time, but you can never altogether forego it. Give us this day our daily diet—that's your proper prayer. And you'd better start praying pretty ...
— One Third Off • Irvin S. Cobb
... brother to England, and at last, wearied with waiting, set off for France. Then Queen Isabella of Spain was persuaded to act. Columbus was recalled, [7] ships were provided with which to make the voyage, and on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, the Santa Maria (sahn'tah mah-ree'ah), the Pinta (peen'tah), and the Nia (neen'yah) set sail from Palos (pah'los), on one of the greatest voyages ever made ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... side t'ree months. I t'ought it was time I give old Lunnon a call. T'ings was gettin' too fierce in Noo York. De cops was layin' fer me. Dey didn't seem like as if they had any use fer me. So, I ...
— The Intrusion of Jimmy • P. G. Wodehouse
... Lem take hold of whatever he can do, and git interested in it," declared the practical Mrs. Atterson, "and he'll show you that there's work left in him yet. Yes-sir-ree-sir! And if he'll work in the open air, ...
— Hiram The Young Farmer • Burbank L. Todd
... I. "Play the stone was a boat, Mere Marie." (I said it as one word, Melody; it makes a pretty name, "Mere-Marie," when the pronunciation is good. To hear our people say "M'ree" or "Marry," breaks the heart, as my mother ...
— Rosin the Beau • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... part ways why. Kit an' me was drunk at Laramie. I kain't remember much. But I do ree-colleck Kit said something to me about you in the Army, with Donerphan in Mayheeco. Right then I gits patriotic. 'Hooray!' says I. Then we taken another drink. After that we fell to arguin' how much land we'd git out o' ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough
... "Boxes am ree-diculous," he remarked, "but furniture isn't. Isn't there some piece of furniture that they'd like better than anything else ...
— Ethel Morton at Rose House • Mabell S. C. Smith
... Lajooar. Nanotragus hemprichianus. Amoor. Cervicapra lencolis. Teel. Cervicapra ellipsiprymna. Apoolli. Cervicapra arundinaera. Oboor. Alcelaphus bubalis. Poora. Trageiaphus scriptus. Roda. Hippoacayus Bakeri Aboori. Camelopardalis giraffa. Ree. Phacochaerus AEtani (Rupp) (Wart-hog). Kool. Bos caffer. Joobi. Elephas Africanus. Leteb. Rhinoceeros bicornis. Oomooga. Felis leo. Lobohr. Felis leopardes. Quatch. Wild dog, probably (Lycaon pietus). Orara. Jackal. Roodi. Hyana crocata. Laluha. Manis Temminckii. Mooak. Hystrix ap. Cho. Viverra ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker
... reason. You see, I've been all over it, at Mr. Stone's orders, and I ree'lize what a nice lady she is. I don't have to see her, to understand her tastes and her 'complishments. Why, jest the books on her centre tables and the records for her phonograph spell her out for me, in words of one syllable. And, though I'm hunting for ...
— Vicky Van • Carolyn Wells
... you all know Are Cella Ree and Tommy To. About as queer as friends can be, Are Tommy To and Cella Ree. For hours they sit there grim and stable Side by side upon the table. Tom is red and Cella pale, His blushes are of no avail; She sits, in ...
— The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes • Leroy F. Jackson
... or Ree, now confined to a small village (on Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota,) which they share with the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes of the Siouan family. The Arikara are the remains of ten different tribes of "Paneas," who had been driven from ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... quick ez we gib up dey tuk us all pris'ners. Dar was twenty-sebben in de squad I wuz wid. 'Long a while atter dark, dey tuk us out an' marched us off, wid a guard on each side. We hadn't gone more'n two or t'ree hundred yards afo' de guard begun ter shoot at us. Dey hit me in t'ree places, an' I fell down an' rolled inter a ditch by de roadside, kinder under de weeds like. Atter a while I sorter come ter myself an' crawled off fru de weeds ter ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... like the Gazetteer's riddle-my-ree, Who, untwisting Antiquity's cable, Makes Barnstaple's town with its name to agree, Take its rise from a Barn ...
— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
... "Yes sir-ree!" Uncle Billy assured him. "They shan't nobody take them rooms away from you fer money, marbles, ner chalk. A bargain's a bargain, an' I allus stick to one I make," and he virtuously took a chew of tobacco while he inspected the afternoon sky with a ...
— The Best American Humorous Short Stories • Various
... These yer tarrapins has got sense, and they're no more like it than a stone. One night when we hadn't nothin' to eat at home, mother and me, an' she was a sittin' there with tears in her eyes wonderin' what we'd do next day, I ree-collected, Levin, that there was four tarrapins down in the cellar,—black tarrapin, that had been put there six months before. I said to mother: 'I 'spect them ole tarrapins is dead an' starved, ...
— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend
... arranged for an armistice with Germany with a view toward immediate negotiations for peace. This arrangement for the cessation of military operations became effective December 7. In spite of its provisions, however, the Germans, who had taken Riga (ree'ga) in September, continued their advance into Russian territory. By the close of 1917 peace negotiations were in progress between Russia and her enemies. Russia under Bolshevik control had definitely deserted ...
— A School History of the Great War • Albert E. McKinley, Charles A. Coulomb, and Armand J. Gerson
... got some good horse dere, but Zepherin don't care. He's back it up, hees own paroisse, ba golly, An' he mak' it t'ree doll-arre w'en Maskinonge Star On de two mile heat was ...
— Humour of the North • Lawrence J. Burpee
... reflected, when once again they started over the rough road toward Cragsnook. "It ought to be pronounced as it is spelled instead of 'ree'—she looks red enough in ...
— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis
... has dance two, t'ree time in the house of Madame Delchasse. 'It is zhenius,' exclaim Madame Pelchasse at this dance; and always, and always, tou-jours, she tell of the zhenius of this jeune fille who has come live with her. Thass all. The proprietaire of the Odeon, he fin' it hout. He insist, this jeune fille ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... you could if you tried. All you've got to do is to riddle-me-ree the words a bit. I'm getting on first rate; and what I like in these people is that they never laughs at you when you ...
— The Adventures of Don Lavington - Nolens Volens • George Manville Fenn |
