"Lawing" Quotes from Famous Books
... city lawyers; they tell me they is cute. I have had to do some lawing lately. Down the crick erbout a mile Elhannon Howard lives. Last winter I sold Elhannon a hawg on credit fer ten dollars like a dang fool and he wouldn't pay fer it, so I lawed him before Squire Ingram and got ... — Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt
... where, articulate or inarticulate, for an aristocracy of talent, a governing class, namely, what did govern, not merely which took the wages of governing, and could not with all our industry be kept from misgoverning, corn-lawing, and playing the very deuce, with us—it may not be altogether useless to remind some of the greener-headed sort what a dreadfully difficult affair the getting of such an aristocracy is! Do you expect, ... — Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various
... late yestreen, And ere they paid the lawing, They set a combat them between, To fight it in ... — Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley
... the worst of you, Bessy," said Mrs. Pullet, compassionately, "for I doubt you'll have trouble enough without that; and your husband's got that poor sister and her children hanging on him,—and so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies. Not as I'd have it said out o' ... — The Mill on the Floss • George Eliot |