have busted up--smashed all to pieces.
Always knew they would.

I sez to you, ma, a hundred times--don't you remember ?--Now, ma, sez I, 'tain't no use.

He's been to college, and he talks grammar, and all that; but what's the use?
What's the use of talkin' grammar?
Don't help nothin'.

A man feels kind o' stuck up when he's been to college.

But, ma, sez I, gi' me a self-made man--a man what knows werry well that twice two's four.