He thought of Old Mose and his mule, thought too of the "ornery no-count" Blinkey Bill who planned to beat Mose out of his coal mine.
That ornery hound kept coming and coming till he had begged back all the camels and had the whole hundred.
Tom's old ornery corn-cob pipe had got so old and swelled and warped that she couldn't hold together any longer, notwithstanding the strings and bandages, but caved in and went to pieces.
And Green Valley folks are orneryenough on top and when things are going smoothly for you.
But that ain't saying that somebody's ornery critter won't harm him.
He's anornery cuss, he'd appreciate it all right, that old mule.
And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent but to set around and look ornery and lay for a chance to steal something.
With shot gun in hand, he made his way to the door, flung it open and curtly ordered: "Come out of there, you ornery thief!
We know that that ornery bunch of skunks and coyotes of Morello's is sky-hootin' round here some place.
That old plug has filled his ornery carcass up on it.
But these others--they were mean enough and ornery enough; but they were humans.
You'd get a ornery hallybi fer a guinea a head, but they'd keep out of this case.
Of all th' ornery outfits I ever saw--" began the man at the table, grinning from ear to ear at the spectacle he had just witnessed.
Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.
I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.
Jest my luck," said Shif'less Sol, "to be left on a desert island with an ornery cuss like Jim Hart.
The jail was a ornery edifiss, but the table was librally surplied with Bakin an Cabbidge.
I'm for the Union as she air, and withered be the arm of every ornery cuss who attempts to bust her up.
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Wal, that night, a blamed ornery thief come 'long and stole all them potatoes.
