I hed a gown o' thet once: it wasdrefful kind o' clingy stuff.
He knowed I was a expectin' to be sick, and he was drefful afraid he wouldn't get hum in time; but he did.
It would be a most drefful misfortune if Massa Courtenay was to sing out, and force me to split him heart wid dis knife ob mine; so we will just make it onpossible for him to do any such foolis' t'ing.
Tho' so long ago all these dreffulthings happened, I was very glad to git away from this gloomy room, and go where the rich and sparklin Crown Jewils is kept.
This 'ere hastin' to be rich is sich a drefful temptation.
He was a drefful drinkin' old crittur, that lived there all alone in the woods by himself a-tendin' saw and grist mill.
Huldy was a drefful chipper sort o' gal; and work sort o' rolled off from her like water off a duck's back.
Drefful proud he was; and he was pretty much sot on this world, and kep' a sort o' court goin' on round him.
He didn't let nobody else back him, or handle the reins, but Cuff; and Cuff was drefful set up about it, and he swelled and bragged about that ar boss all round the country.
There was old Parson Williams of North Billriky got into a drefful mess about a hoss.
Ye see, the Gineral was a drefful worldly old critter, and was all for the pomps and the vanities.
Wal, the cap'n he was drefful sort o' oneasy arter she was gone.
Cuff was the doctor's nigger man, and he was nat 'lly a drefful proud crittur.
It feels dreffulsleek on me, but my old man Claib says it’s too tight.
She's come clear down from God's house, and this is a drefful cold world.
Bring me some lemonade and nuts, for I'm drefful sick; but don't bring me no pills nor molters!
Drefful dirty," said Dotty, scowling at her overshoes.
It's a drefful thing to grow up a nidiot," said she, drawing her mouth down as she had seen Prudy do when beseeching her to learn the alphabet.
Caesar drefful frighten we no get the gunpowder go off when Massa Huggin man come.
Den Massa Huggin drinkum, drinkum, and go drefful bad and nebber flog no more poor niggah.
Uncle Bob drefful bad ober dar," he added a moment after, pointing to a small cabin a little apart from the rest.
I tell you, Bobby, dat drink's a drefful thing wen it gits de upper han' ob you.
Bredren an' sisters, it war a drefful time when I war tored away from my pore little chillen.
Oh, I war so soun' asleep dat wen Marster wanted some ice-water he had to shake me drefful hard to wake me up.
Well, I war laying out on de porch fas' asleep an' snorin' drefful hard.
It's a mos' drefful mystery how dem dar tings got here.
He mus' hab thought I woz mos' drefful pore, an' he'd try to help me.
I didn't know den what de SOUL was, or what a drefful ting 'twas to lose it; but I knowd it mus mean suffin orful.
He's a drefful wicked boy; he snaps beans at the teacher and gets a whipping every single day.
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