right smart spell
Example Sentences
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Kaintucky, but I been here a right smart spell.
From Bucky O'Connor by Raine, William MacLeod
She's been a right smart spell longah now 'n she 'lowed she'd be.
From The Mountain Girl by Erskine, Payne
Say, Tom-Jeff, I been erbout the best friend you've had, barrin' your daddy, for a right smart spell o' years.
From The Quickening by Ashe, E. M.
And I haint been sosherble with no one fur—fur a right smart spell.
From Esmeralda by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
"I ain't been to the Corners for a right smart spell, but I didn't know such as her lived there."
From Six Feet Four by Gregory, Jackson
