69 examples of taters in sentences

"Yer've no sich cherries nor taters nor raspberries as dem in de Norf, I'll bet!"

Before Jenny Bell went to live with her darter I didn't know what I should dew, for the taters was gittin' pooty low.

" I again told him to go, and, disappointed at my not accepting things of greater value, he said, "Sir, will a sack o' taters be of any service to you?" This sort of gratitude was not uncommon in those days.

You must fetch wood an water, bake an boil, Act as butcher when we kill; The corn an taters you must hill, Keep the garden spick and span.

I kin give ye that, an' smashed taters an' chicken gravy, an' dried corn, an' hot corn-pone, an' currant jell, an' strawberry preserves, an' my own cannin' o' peaches, an' pumpkin-pie an' coffee.

A Southerner declares that his nostrils can detect at a prodigious distance the cooking of "possum and taters."

* 'TATERS.

" "Not since 'is 'taters be out o' ground?" "No.

'Im an' 's wife an' a maid 'll never eat all them 'taters.

For all of us as is left in this 'ere parish 'as growed as many 'taters as they'll be like to need, same as 'e.

So I don't see nought but disappointment for Parson an' a lot o' good 'taters lyin' to rot in their pies.

So you're givin' your 'taters 'way to please Parson?

Yet I do allus say as 'taters what a man grows wi' sweat of 'is own brow do beat all others in t' eatin'.

fall right down in de dirt, in de middle er de ya'd, en de w'ite folks had ter make dey dinner dat day off'n col' ham en sweet'n' 'taters.

but jes' ter git sump'n' ter eat; fer he had done eat up de bread an' meat he tuk away wid 'im, an' had been libbin' on roas'n-ears an' sweet'n taters he'd slip out'n de woods an' fin' in co'n fiel's 'an 'tater-patches.

He brung us meal an' 'taters when dad broke his leg, and he fetched oranges in his pocket when marm had the fevers.

'Dough 'possum meat is glo'yus wid 'taters in de pan, But put 'longside pork sassage it takes a backward stan';

And, mind you, pretty nigh all on us 'ad a-bin mouldin'-up taters all day, so's to get them finished afore the hay; so us could do wi' a drop.

"I reckin dere was 'bout a hun'erd an' sixty acres planted in taters an' corn, an' dey made whiskey too.

One day I go out to de smokehouse to git a mess o' taters.

'What you doin stealin our taters!'

They raised rice, corn wheat, and lots of cotton, raised everything they etvegetables, taters and all that.

"He would'nt gi' us no coffee, 'cept on Sunday Mornings when we would have shorts or seconds of wheat, which is de leavins' of flour at mills, yu' know, but we had plenty bacon, corn bread, taters and peas.

He had plenty corn, taters, pum'kins, hogs, cows ev'ything, but he didn' gi us nuthin but strong plain close and plenty to eat; we slept in ole common beds and my pa made up little cribs and put hay in dem fur de chillun.

After a few more minutes, during which the old wife composedly tells me of all the children she has buriedshe has to think twice before she can recollect the exact numberand in the same breath remarks, "How gallus bad their 'taters were last year," I take my departure, and leave the old man still nodding his weak old head, and chuckling to the kettle.

69 examples of  taters  in sentences