29 examples of peavey in sentences

" "Then what?" "Well, seh, Ah stayed on th' place twell we moved oveh to Miss Cahline's secon' cousin, Mahstah Cunnel Peavey, but they wa'n't nothin' theah, so Ah sais t' Miss Cahline that Ah's goin'

No, seha-livin' on Cunnel Looshe Peavey.

"Especially after Cousin Looshe Peavey came to spend Christmas with us one time.

Hereupon, confessing herself unnerved, Miss Caroline led me to the dining room, and in a glass of Madeira from a cask forwarded by Second-cousin Colonel Lucius Quintus Peavey, C.S.A., she pledged herself to preserve the decencies as these had been codified in Little Arcady by the Sons and Daughters of Temperance.

No longer, however, was there even a second-cousin whose hospitality she was free to claim, for Colonel Lucius Quintus Peavey, C.S.A., now slept with his fathers in far-off Virginia, leaving behind him only traditions and a little old sherry.

All night Clem had babbled languidly of many things, of "a hunded thousan' hatchin' aigs," and "a thousan' brillion dollahs," of "Mahstah Jere" and "Little Miss," of a visiting Cousin Peavey whom he had been obliged to "whup" for his repeated misdemeanors; and darkly and often had he whispered, so low I could scarcely hear it, of an enemy that was entering the room with a fell design.

" Thus did we reach the coffee and some cognac which the late L.Q. Peavey had gifted me with by the hands of his estimable kinswoman.

THE STRAIN OF PEAVEY It was too true that I could not call her "Little Miss," as I had lightly called her mother "Miss Caroline" at our first encounter.

"Kate has little of the Peavey in her,she is every inch a Lansdale," Miss Caroline found occasion to say; while I, thus provided with an excuse to look, remarked to myself that her inches, while not excessive, were unusually meritorious.

And yet in sunlight I incurred the full, close look of her eyes, and no longer doubted the presence of a Peavey strain in her immediate ancestry.

It might never meet this young woman's caprice to be flagrantly a Peavey in my presence, but her capacity for this, if she chose to exercise it, I detected beyond a doubt.

There was Peavey in it.

I cannot affirm that there was even one moment of that curiously short afternoon when she became wholly and frankly a Peavey.

But more than once did this felicity seem to impend, and I suspected that she might even have been more graciously endowed than with a mere Peavey capacity in general.

I believed that if she chose, she might almost become a Miss Caroline Peavey.

" It was, of course, quite like a Lansdale to do that; but much liker a Peavey to tell it, with that brief poise of the opened eyes upon one's own.

You have such a knowing way of fighting off moments that might become Peavey.

And of course I shouldn't care to have that dog find out that this apparently Peavey worldflawlessly Peaveyhas a streak of Lansdale running through itthat

That is why I can't trust Jim with you alone, and why I could hardly trust myself there without Jim's sustaining looksthat is why, in fact, that I shall try to shun you in all but your approximately Peavey moments.

" "Why should you want to believe it?" I should have known, without catching the glint of her eyes under the hat brim, that a Peavey spoke there.

"If you could see the thing once, you'd understand," I said, an answer, of course, fit only for a Peavey.

The words were Peavey enough, but the voice was rather curiously Lansdale.

Perhaps it was the face of a Peavey; there was at least a family resemblance; that would explain the likeness to Miss Kate.

She would even become, I must affirm, more nearly Peavey than was strictly her right; for it was plain that our treaty, must involve certain stipulations of restraint on her part as well as on my own.

It seemed too Peavey and perverse a thing that she should, finding our truce honorably observed by myself, behave toward me as if with a cold design to bring me down in disgraceas a proof of her superior powers and my own wretched weakness.

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