Oh, I was goin' to make it smallpox, but I asked Doctor Parker if there was anything worse than smallpox and he said he cal'lated leprosy was about as bad as any disease goin'.
Last time I was in here Cap'n Sam Hunniwell heard you call me that and I cal'lated he'd die laughin'.
I asked him what made him do it and he said he cal'lated his works must be loose and every once in a while his speaking trumpet fell down into his music box.
I suppose Jonah cal'lated he didn't need to be swallowed," he mused.
I cal'lated I did n't want no more slidin' over there 'n Canady.
Cal'lated when the squabble come I 'd be ready t' dew business.
But to my notion they're more calc'lated to loco a henhawk than furnish inspiration for a dance.
He hadn't cal'lated on that bear coming out for a good two minutes more; but mebbe the bear had stronger objections to smoking than Brackett knew.
Don't ye go to fergittin' that I'm a constable, and can arrest people who use language cal'lated to provoke a breach of the peace.
I swore arterwards, sure as ever I spec'lated and got rich, you should get rich.
Though I put it to yourself, sir, whether it were calc'lated to keep a man up to his work with a good hart, to be continiwally cutting in betwixt him and the Ghost with "Amen!
Waal, the upshot is, I sent t' town for some things I calc'lated ye'd heed.
I'd kind a calc'lated on havin' a buffalo-but that's gone up the spout along with them sassengers.
I suppose you've kind o' calc'lated on stayin' here three years more?
But y' ain't calc'lated on no sleepers nor hotel bills.
These yere onnacheral riches onhinges me to a p'int whar I deecides I'll visit Chicago an' Noo York, as calk'lated to broaden me.
The air of our home circle wa'n't cal'lated to raise heroes in.
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day; Now spurs the latedtraveler apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch.
I am so lated in the world that I Have lost my way for ever.
One day he was cruisin' round and come on to a old he-bear consid'rable more sudden than he calc'lated on.
I notice Moran didn't leave town this mornin' like he calc'lated to.
If I calc'lated it'd benefit the town I dun'no' but I'd kind of look into the matter.
This dogone marryin' racket's calc'lated to set a camel dry.
Zacheus whispered in Galusha's ear that he cal'lated 'twouldn't do no harm to turn on the glim and proceeded forthwith to turn up the wick of one of the lamps.
If you'd puffed smoke, and whistled once in a while, she'd have cal'lated you must be a tugboat.
But you cal'lated I didn't know it and that maybe you could unload your five hundred shares on to me at cut rates, eh?
YOU said if 'twas money matters or business Miss Martha went to see Cap'n Jeth about you cal'lated the cap'n would be cruisin' up to Boston to see a medium pretty soon.
Used to set around hours at a stretch, when I was aboard the old lightship, and try to pick out what name in Scriptur' I cal'lated I'd ruther be called.
If you was poor I cal'lated you'd begin to have pity for each other and, as the feller said, 'pity is akin to love.
I seen ye soaking yourself out there on the sand in the sun, and I cal'lated you'd look like a b'iled lobster when you come up.
Well, son, it's a matter I cal'lated first off to handle myself, but it looks now as if you better be in on it.
Says she took up Bailey's offer 'cause she cal'lated I'd be company for her.
I cal'lated it would be a sort of Paradise, and HOW I was goin' to live or whether or not I'd be lonesome with everyone of my folks dead and gone, never crossed my mind.
Incidentally she was kind of glad she didn't like the place, because now she cal'lated she should go West and visit her niece; they'd been wanting her to come for so long.
It's so cal'lated to be," replied Gabe, with dignity.
I cal'lated 'twasn't about the house you wished to see me.
Well, it may possibly be that he cal'lated he was carryin' about all your help that the craft would stand, as 'twas.
Judgin' by the price he got for the Inlet Hill sand heap he must have cal'lated Paradise had got here and he was sellin' the golden streets by the runnin' foot.
The gossips among the townspeople winked and chuckled and cal'lated Fletcher Fosdick had better look out or his girl would be took into the firm of Z.
I told him I cal'lated you'd just as soon harness Jess and drive up and get her.
Whether Doctor Holliday cal'lated so or not he did not say.
I cal'lated to catch the Old Harry part sure, 'cause Captain Lote is always neat and fussy 'bout his desk.
He cal'lated you'd better have it here, to read to yourself, fust.
Wanted me to try it and, if I liked it, he cal'lated maybe I'd buy some.
He explained his loneliness one evening by observing that he cal'lated he missed the painting chaps.
Some folks cal'lated I married her for that, but they cal'lated wrong.
After a time he announced that it was getting late and he cal'lated he would go up to the light room.
We ain't all cal'lated to hoe pertaters nor yet to write poetry verses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
