Word: jakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will participate: J. Shannon and J. Malone, Tug Collins, and Saxey Joyce; J. Sweeney, and W. Ramsey; Prof. Bagley, and J. Daley; R. Lord, and J. Murphy; J. Cunningham, and J. Sullivan; J. Harlin and J. Green; J. Doherty, and W. Nelle; T. Kneeland, and T. Sullivan. Mr. Jake Kilrain will act as master of ceremonies. Tickets, 50 cts., for sale at Leavitt and Pierce...
...Yaas," continued Captain Batt slowly. "He never knew nuthin' about it till few days arter. An' then - 'Why, confound the feller, he's gumm'd me out o' my money ter no puppos,' was all ole Jake said...
...Jake 's a reg'lar pirick, but thet blamed pedlar did rake him daown well," admitted Metcalf complacently. "I declar' to 't, I wish the Widder Hannam could ekil it. Some folks thinks their own flesh 'n blood ain't no better 'n" - (casting about for an original comparison) - "better 'n - dirt...
...Yaas," began Captain Peregrine again, with his inevitable introductory monosyllable, "I s'pose the Widder Hannam 'z havin' a pooty hard time on 't. An' there's Jake, her own husban's brother, one o' the richest men in taown. I vum 't is a shame...
...summut kinky, I'll admit," put in a new voice, that of old Batt Belcher - a dry and wizened specimen of the retired fisherman species. "She jes' tells him up an' down wut she thinks, an' - wal, ole Jake ain't none too pious, an' he jes' socks it to her agin. An' so it goes...