"Esp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Payne suspects that "laban," milk, esp. artificially soured (see vol. vi, 201), is a clerical error for "jubn"cheese. This may be; but I follow the text as the exaggeration ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton
... full season of sheep-shearing; meant to last until the next year, including a family, but often "blued' in a 'spree' chyack: (chy-ike) like chaffing; to tease, mildly abuse cocky: a farmer, esp. dairy farmers ('cow-cockies') cubby-house: or cubby. Children's playhouse ("Wendy house" is ...
— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson
... comme si, son me, en ce seul mot, il la rpandait. Je ne profrai donc rien de plus: il n'agita donc pas de plume—jusqu' ce que je fis peine davantage que marmotter D'autres amis dj ont pris leur vol—demain il me laissera comme mes Esprances dj ont pris leur vol. Alors l'oiseau ...
— Le Corbeau • Edgar Allan Poe |
