"Statin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instrooments of tortur, such as thumbscrews, throat-collars, etc., statin that these was conkered from the Spanish Armady, and addin what a crooil peple the Spaniards was in them days—which elissited from a bright-eyed little girl of about twelve summers the remark that she tho't it was rich to talk about ...
— Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature • Various
... a-goin' to add or diminish," says Arville. "I hain't thought on't. I am merely statin' what, in my opinion, would be the Lord's will on ...
— Samantha at the World's Fair • Marietta Holley
... take care of yourselves an' keep a good lookout, which I know, of course, that you're goin' to do. I was jest statin' the other side of the proposition, tellin' what would happen to keerless people, but Colonel Newcomb an' Major Hertford ain't keerless people. Good-bye, Mr. Mason. Mebbe I'll see you ag'in ...
— The Guns of Shiloh • Joseph A. Altsheler
... debate, and while I begins by statin' flat-footed that Robin could come or go for all I cared, it ends in the usual compromise. I agrees to take the eight-forty-five into town and skirmish for Sonny. He'd be almost sure to show up at Purdy-Pell's to-night, Sadie says, and if I was on hand I might induce him to ...
— Shorty McCabe on the Job • Sewell Ford
... been bedrid now This twenty year. And you'll allow It takes a grist o' care and waitin' To tend on her. But I'm a-statin' But jest the facts when this I say: There's never been a single day That gal has left her mother's side Except for meetin', or to ride Through mud and mire, through rain or snow, To market when ...
— Cap and Gown - A Treasury of College Verse • Selected by Frederic Knowles |
