"Leastways" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... rag carpet on the floor; see it? hit-or-miss pattern. Mother made it herself; leastways, the mother of the boy I'm comin' to bimeby. I always liked hit-or-miss better than any other pattern. Then there's smaller rugs, and one of 'em has a dog on it, with real glass eyes; golly, but they shine! And a table in the middle with a lamp on it, ...
— The Wooing of Calvin Parks • Laura E. Richards
... that ain't the party I drove to Blackheath the other afternoon," he said half aloud. "Leastways, I picked her up in Golfney Place whether it was Number 5 or not. 'Tain't likely there was ...
— Enter Bridget • Thomas Cobb
... of the 'us' and was afraid that even she had gone a little too far; 'leastways, speaking for myself, ...
— Clara Hopgood • Mark Rutherford
... want to stay long if he did get in," thought Ragged Dick, hitching up his pants. "Leastways I shouldn't. They're so precious glad to see you that they won't let you go, but board you gratooitous, and never send ...
— Ragged Dick - Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot-Blacks • Horatio Alger
... men know that. Our captain comes aboard with a letter sayin' as he's the Thompson what'll take the ship out. We has orders to that effect from the owners. It ain't possible another man could have known o' the thing so quick, and come aboard to take his place. Leastways, we hain't got no evidence but the word of a sailor who's dead, to the contrary. It may be as ye say, but we'll have to stick to this fellow until we take soundings. When we gets in, then ye may tell yer tale an' find men to back it. Don't say no more about it ...
— Mr. Trunnell • T. Jenkins Hains
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