Word: hain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hand me my dulcy-more," 62-year-old "Aunt" Ellen Fields will chirp to a visitor at her house near Viper. "This thang hain't much good any more. Ah put in a new fret-just took a pin and bit the head offen h'it-but h'it still don't play too good." When she plays, she puts the three-stringed instrument across her lap, then strums out the tune on the top string while the bottom two give off a thin, constant drone. For lonesome songs, she tunes the top string down...
...Without a Star (Universal). "Did yew say INSAHD the haouse?" Kirk Douglas, a new hand on the Triangle spread, is plumb dumfounded. "Wah," he gasps, "it hain't har'ly deesint." A little later he says to his pard he says, "Did yew heah whut thet maan said? INSAHD the haouse!" As they ride out to the ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right...
...World War I, a group of us followed the verger through the vast spaces of St. Paul's. When someone mentioned the Gloomy Dean, the verger said firmly: "'E hain't the Gloomy Dean; 'e's the sad hop-timist...
Waal sir, an reckin that in yore part of the country, ef'n ya hain't got the gumption to check on whuther a story is true or not, ya jest run an eddytorial saying ya don't believe it. Ah don't know how yer moonshine indestry compares with ourn up here, but ah'd bet we'uns could teach ya a thing or two about jurnyalism-Eddy...
...scene of the original defeat comes the paragon of righteousness, Errol Flynn, a sheep herder whose father was killed in the great battle. Flynn knows the principle, "Thar hain't no reason why sheep and cattle cam't get along together...