'Nothing at all, Edie dear; leastways, that is, nothing to speak of,' said her mother, coming up from the shop hot and flurried from her desperate encounter with the redoubtable Miss Luttrell. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
"It ain't the SMILING JANE," said one of the seamen; "leastways," he added cautiously, "it wasn't when I came aboard." ❋ Unknown (1903)
He didn't tell it, Miss -- leastways, not until after them three others boarded us. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the meantime, you just rest up and think about what things you want to pack, because we'll just about have to set up housekeeping on your stuff -- leastways, the front part of the house. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He was gentler than a woman — leastways, than the "girls" who used to live in some big buildin's across the way there where you see the warehouse now. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Which is a bad thing, cause I always liked Lou and nobody likes a thief, leastways one that's low enough to steal from another carny. ❋ James Lloyd Davis (2011)
No opponent can touch you, but he don't need to, since you'll die of apoplexy from exertion, as I'd discovered back in '60, when old Ghengiz the Mongol and I repelled Sam Collinson' s bannermen at the Summer Palace - leastways, old Ghengiz did while I lit out for pastures new. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"Nothing much, leastways ... oh, yes, I gather Joe likes white women ... unwilling ones, for choice." ❋ Unknown (2010)
She is the experienced one, leastways that is what she is running on. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Gibson got some money, but like Brando in The Waterfront, he coulda been a contender, and wasn't, leastways not for his first novel. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)
Which of course she was - European royalty, leastways. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But there was no storm, leastways not any rain storm to speak of, and the hunt sucked. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I belong to a local writing group, leastways to the extent that I get the newsletter. ❋ Steve Perry (2010)
"I agree we must get the barge refloated to take the wounded on," says I. "For the rest of us - well, for me, leastways, I'd sooner head back for Cawnpore." ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you can't get soup you can leastways get applesauce. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I'd nothing on my conscience, either - leastways, not to interest him. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A curl is flexion, a bench-press extension, leastways, of the arm. ❋ Steve Perry (2009)
I see him now, the wery day as he was rated on them Dombey books, a speaking of her with his face a glistening with doo — leastways with his modest sentiments — like a new blowed rose, at dinner. ❋ Unknown (2007)
