"Atter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... my grandma Rachel. De traders fotched her here f'um Virginny, and she never did learn to talk plain. Grandma Sallie Gaines was too old for field wuk, so she looked atter de slave babies whilst deir Ma's was wukkin' in de field. Grandpa ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States - Volume II. Arkansas Narratives. Part I • Work Projects Administration
... chillen ob Adam, en de chillen's kin, Dey all got smeared wid de pitch ob sin. Dey shut dere eyes, to de great here-atter, En flung sin aroun', wid a turrible splatter. En cahooted wid Satan, en dat wat de matter— An' troubles, well. I bet you dey had 'em—Adam— De chillen ob Adam, what forgot ter pray, dey had 'em, And dey keep on a hadden 'em down tuh ...
— Standard Selections • Various
... tell you dis heah, and you could do whut you liked. De trufe is, niggers down heah been gittin' mighty biggoty lately, dey get so much 'couragement f'om up Norf. Massa Edd'ern, dey sho'ly do think dey gwine ter run dis country atter while. O' co'se every nigger whut's got any sense knows diff'rent f'om dat, but it seem like dey allus wuz a heap o' triflin' niggers whut ain't willin' to wu'k, but is willin' to make trouble. I dess thought I'd tell you 'bout ...
— The Law of the Land • Emerson Hough
... said the elder one. "You 'ten' ter yo' wuk an' finish dat bairl-stave. You spen's enti'ely too much er yo' time stretchin' yo' neck atter other people. An' you need n' 'sturb yo'se'f 'bout dem folks 'cross de street, fer dey ain't yo' kin', an' you're wastin' yo' time both'in' yo' min' wid 'em, er wid folks w'at comes on de street on account ...
— The House Behind the Cedars • Charles W. Chesnutt |
