54 Verbs to Use for the Word r

He rolled his r's, a favourite device of his to induce humour.

He, however, insisted on satisfying them as to its worth and placed in their hands a heavy gold watch by McCabe, with an albert chain, equally ponderous; and assured them that he had paid Rs. 800 for the two.

The simple word, or positive, becomes [the] comparative by adding r or er; and the superlative by adding st or est, to the end of it.

There were sundry "sacr-r-r-es" and "bêtes" uttered the while; but all came out freely and without anger, as if Mons.

He ordered no ornaments for his daughter, because he had little cash or credit, but simply borrowed Rs. 300 to meet absolutely necessary expenses.

[Footnote p: ones] [Footnote q: roaming] [Footnote r: boy's] [Footnote s: gardener's] [Footnote t: son]

The Chinese, who cannot pronounce the letter r, call it Uotala.

" "There is a lady in the case?" suggested a young doctor, who, by virtue of having spent six months in the South, dropped his r-s, and talked of "niggahs" in a way to make a Georgian's hair stand on end.

Pine-wood sparrows, pine warblers, and red-winged blackbirds were in song; two red-shouldered hawks were screaming, a flicker was shouting, a red-bellied woodpecker cried kur-r-r-r, brown-headed nuthatches were gossiping in the distance, and suddenly I heard, what I never thought to hear in a pinery, the croak of a green heron.

Rev. ser., form R By group of 7 & John A. Long.

"'Twas I did it, majjor, and 'twas as well fired a piece as ye've ever hear-r-d in the king's sarvice.

But there is another story to consider; my critics accused me of ignoring the three R's of Hebrew loveRachel, Rebekah, and Ruth.

Folk say this is why so many southerners leave out their R's and hold on to the old superstitions, they've had a colored mama for a nurse-maid.

If I doubted Gopál's solvency, do you suppose I would have lent him Rs. 20,000 on his note of hand?

The angle of deflection φ was measured by its tangent, tan φ = d/r; d was measured by the steel screw and brass scale, and r by the steel tape.

Ah, yes, a rooat least, it's spelt r-o-u-e, that must be roo all rightbut wait till I see what that is that's written across the topMADELINE MEADOWLARK;

"Laddie," said John McTavish, "if I but had the lost-ball pur-r-rivilege of yon sweet courr-r-se and could insu-r-r-e deliver-r-r-y!"

And how would you write two r's?

"Forrardfor-r-rard!" shouted Ajax.

I gave him Rs. 10 out of the advance money and promised as much more if he could persuade the Collectorate clerks to cook the appellant's accounts, so as to show a short payment.

"Possibly," answered the astrologer, "but it is not a case of Báti Chálá; if you can guarantee me Rs. 10, I will perform Nákha Darpan (literally 'nail-mirror').

To tell a colored roustabout twenty or thirty years ago to fetch a certain cargo, labeled with the name of a particular boat or consignee, would have been to draw from the individual addressed a genuine old-time plantation grin, with some caustic observation about lack of school facilities in the days when the roustabout ought to have been studying the "three Rs," but was not.

He liked the boy, not only because he drove a sweet ball, but because you could talk to him in a way you couldn't to par-r-r-rties you was teaching to hold a club proper-r-r-r and to quit callin' it a stick.

Of co'se I sort o' ca'culate on him takin' the "Junior," an' lettin' me tack a capital "S" an' a little "r" to my name 'fo' I die; which would nachelly call attention to him direc' eve'y time I'd sign my signature.

Oi niver in me loife have seen sich char-r-min' illycution, The gistures av thim wid their fists was grand in ixecution; We tried to be impar-r-tial, so no favoroite we made, But jist sicked them on tergither, yis indade, yis indade.

54 Verbs to Use for the Word  r