"Tur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... grist ground, Aunt Debby's mother had to send her 'bout six miles through th' woods to the nearest house—it stood where the old Perkins barn is now. The man come back with Debby, but as soon as he saw great-grandfather he give one yell—'smallpox!'—and lit out for home. Folks was tur'ble afraid of it then an' he had seven children of his own an' nobody for 'em to look to if he died, so you couldn't blame him none. They was all like that then, every fam'ly just barely holdin' on, ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
... saying 'matr['o]nal' or for saying 'preb['e]ndal' than for saying 'cal['e]ndar'. Of course words like 'tremendous', being imported whole, keep the original stress. In our case the Latin words came into existence as d['e]can['a]lis, pr['e]bend['a]lis, parallel with n['a]tur['a]lis, which gives us 'n['a]tural'. That mostly wrong-headed man, Burgon of Chichester, was correct in speaking of his rights or at any rate his ...
— Society for Pure English Tract 4 - The Pronunciation of English Words Derived from the Latin • John Sargeaunt
... tom. viii. p. 464) seem to prove that the succession of Clodion was disputed by his two sons, and that the younger was Meroveus, the father of Childeric. * Note: The relationship of Meroveus to Clodion is extremely doubtful.—By some he is called an illegitimate son; by others merely of his race. Tur ii. c. 9, in Sismondi, Hist. des Francais, ...
— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 3 • Edward Gibbon
... Tur. Thou art in the right, my venerable cropshin, they will indeed; the tongue of the oracle never twang'd truer. Your courtier cannot kiss his mistress's slippers in quiet for them; nor your white innocent gallant pawn his revelling suit to make his punk a supper. An honest decayed ...
— The Poetaster - Or, His Arraignment • Ben Jonson |
