He's a disgrace to Kentucky." "At all events it served as a hint, which Alspaugh did not fail to take.
Since that time there has been two or three dances at Cranston's, but every time Jake has had such twinges of his rheumatism that he did not think it best to 'expose himself to the night air,' and go with the boys." "O!---ouw!---wh-i-s-s-s-sh!" sputtered Abe, spitting the contents of his mouth out explosively, while his face was contorted as if every nerve and muscle was being twisted violently.
"Why, what is the matter, Abe ?" asked Kent, in real alarm.

"Have you swallowed a centipede or has the cramp-colic griped you ?" "No! I hain't swallowed no centerboard, nor have I the belly-ache--blast your chucklehead," roared Abe, as he sprang to his feet, rushed to the brook, scooped up some water in his hands, and rinsed his mouth out energetically.
"Well, what can it be, then?
You surely ain't doing all that for fun." "No, I ain't doing it for fun," shouted Abe, angrier still; "and nobody but a double-and twisted idiot would ask such a fool question.

I was paying so much attention to your dumbed story that I chewed up a green persimmon--one that hadn't been touched by the frost.

It's puckered my mouth so that I will never get it straight again.

It's worse than a pound of alum and a gallon of tanbark juice mixed together.