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Example sentences for "lissy"

Lexicographically close words:
liss; lisse; lissen; lissom; lissome; list; lista; liste; listed; listen
  1. Ah 'low M'lissy 'll make some money out o' this.

  2. There was a pile of newspapers in the wood-shed, and I went to get one to wrap up some things that Aunt M'lissy was sendin' to mother, and I came across this.

  3. Aunt M'lissy said she believed 'twas a girl over to Gilead Ridge.

  4. Ten minutes of M'lissy gits me thinkin' of things way t'other side of that!

  5. I guess likely it was one of the operators that told it fust that you was the man, but anyhow it got as fur as M'lissy Busteed, and after that 'twas plain sailin'.

  6. What are you goin' to say to M'lissy Busteed?

  7. I'd 'bout as soon have M'lissy and be done with it.

  8. That evening he noticed Uncle Terry occasionally watched her with wistful eyes, and, as on the evening before, both he and Aunt Lissy retired early.

  9. Aunt Lissy was the first to speak, and "Good Lord-a-massy" came from her in an awed whisper.

  10. She had no inkling of his coming on that dark and tempestuous evening, and when Uncle Terry bade him enter the house, she was alone in the sitting-room laying the table, while Aunt Lissy was in the kitchen cooking supper.

  11. When Aunt Lissy and Telly came home he was as composed as a rock and sat quietly puffing his pipe, with his feet on top of a chair and pointing towards the fire.

  12. Uncle Terry had not returned from hauling his lobster traps, and Aunt Lissy and Telly met him at the door.

  13. Whatever tastes good is good," replied Albert, and turning to Aunt Lissy he added, "This fried lobster beats anything I have tasted for a long time.

  14. Aunt Lissy soon followed and Albert was left alone with Telly.

  15. I didn't stop to take the rope off my waist, but grabbed the box an' ran for the house with Lissy after me.

  16. Telly's a good girl and Lissy and me set great store by her.

  17. The while M'lissy sang in a mounting, joyful chant, interrupted by Letty's outcry now and then beneath the vigor of the ministration.

  18. Found not where she had looked for Him at all but here with M'lissy in the alley!

  19. If M'lissy understands, she's careful not to let me know it," said Captain Enoch sadly.

  20. And I pity you an' M'lissy if he got hold of the real reason why you wanted it.

  21. It hadn't orter be so awful hard after you be'n goin' to see M'lissy ten years.

  22. Lissy had been allowed to help wait upon the injured child only on promise that nothing exciting should be mentioned.

  23. Lissy had something of her mother's shining vitality, but it dimmed woefully in the rough-and-ready clatter and slam of the big Victory mill.

  24. I could tell Mr. Reardon, and he'd put a substitute on to tend her frames," Lissy spoke up eagerly.

  25. She had turned her row and started back, when there came before her, so plain that she almost thought she might wet her feet in the clear water, a vision of the spring-branch at home up on Unaka, where she and Lissy used to play.

  26. Coming home from work once at dusk, Johnnie found the two little girls on the porch, Deanie crying and Lissy trying to comfort her.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lissy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.