Dinah

Examples

• I likes to keep my things where I knows whar to go to 'em, said Dinah, rather decidedly. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dinah was a character in her own way, and it would be injustice to her memory not to give the reader a little idea of her. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Don't want none o' your light-colored balls, said Dinah; cuttin' round, makin' b'lieve you's white folks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Aunt Dinah's glum, because she can't go to the ball, said Rosa. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You'll only lose your own temper, and utterly confound Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Aunt Dinah greases her wool stiff, every day, to make it lie straight, said Jane. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Missis has spilt lots dat ar way, said Dinah, coming uneasily to the drawers. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Ye couldn't do that ar, no ways, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What is this drawer for, Dinah? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No more nigger dan you be, Miss Rosa, said Dinah, who felt this last remark a reflection on herself. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I'm going through the kitchen, and going to put everything in order, _once_, Dinah; and then I'll expect you to _keep_ it so. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It's handy for most anything, Missis, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Where do you keep your nutmegs, Dinah? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I shan't faint, Dinah, said the child, firmly; and why shouldn't I hear it? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• After Miss Ophelia had taken the rusks, Dinah followed the woman to the door. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thar's some tickets in that ar old cracked jug on the top shelf, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Laws, yes, I put 'em there this morning,--I likes to keep my things handy, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dinah gave a very garrulous version of it, to which Tom added the particulars which he had drawn from her that morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• No Puseyite,* or conservative of any school, was ever more inflexibly attached to time-honored inconveniences than Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Here, Dinah, make her up a bed in your own room, close by the kitchen, and I'll think what to do for her in the morning. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Come, Prue, said Dinah, let's look at your rusks. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• O, I've been up in Tom's room, hearing him sing, and Aunt Dinah gave me my dinner. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Dinah was mistress of the whole art and mystery of excuse-making, in all its branches. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I can't have you cluttering up the kitchen, said Dinah; in my way, foolin' round here. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But it was very seldom that there was any failure in Dinah's last results. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• At this instant, Dinah looked in to say that the woman was awake, and wanted to see Missis. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Them 's handy for siftin' on 't out, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Edited by Janet