"Po" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at Salt Lake City, if you'd like that, too—and thank you again—and now they'll be off once more to the open road and the wild, free life. Not! Yes, two or three good firm Nots. Having milked the town they'll be right down to the dee-po with their silver changed to bills, waiting for No. 6 to come along, and ho! for the open railroad and another town that will skin pretty. I guess I've seen eight or ten of them boys in the last five years, with ...
— Somewhere in Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson
... said to me, 'Guess you's mistaken 'bout dat ar, Mars' Cap'n. Dey mus' gib deir niggas a cabin an' a bite, you know; and dey makes piles o' money. And sho' now, Mars' Cap'n, all de free folks is rich—dey mus' be. Nobody's po' ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 • Various
... interest tables and weights and measures when the time comes, and our geograffy when it's on, and our readin' and writin' and the American Constitution in reg'lar hours, and then we calkilate to git up and git afore the po'try and the Boston airs and graces come round. That's our rights and what our fathers pay school taxes for, and we ...
— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... went on, awkwardly, skippering me with a guile that was shameless, "it bein' from a woman—bein' from a woman, now, says I—'twould be no more 'n po-lite t' open it. Come, now, Davy!" he challenged. "You wouldn't say 'twould be more 'n po-lite, would you? It bein' from a ...
— Doctor Luke of the Labrador • Norman Duncan
... At Lai-t'eo-po (see first section of the second book of this volume), malaria came back, and an abnormal temperature made me delirious. The following day I could not move, and it was not until I had been there six days ...
— Across China on Foot • Edwin Dingle
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