What is "steeven"

Usage examples of "steeven".

Ah is stayin raght heah tite wid Mist Steevens wich makes him pull his punches now caize he git a big kick out of it dat dese fals frends as he call dem caint ontice me away.

He thought, he said, of Steevens and Weybridge and the rest of them five miles overhead, higher to him than the very highest clouds that ever floated over land are to us, steaming slowly and staring down and wondering what had happened to him.

That he also intended to write them down is certain, but he never did, and so unhappily we have to piece together the discrepant fragments of his story from the reminiscences of Commander Simmons, Weybridge, Steevens, Lindley, and the others.

I should be proud, perhaps, to be able to say that Tillary Steevens, with such literary carpentryship talents as he evidently has, is my friend.

It was now to bring me up against Tillary Steevens, white man, but a darned sight blacker than Sam in all but his skin.

I tell just how and why Tillary Steevens was in reality no more than a fraud, a monumental fraud.

I had read it in one of the scripts Steevens had stolen from the attic, in the far-back days of my childhood.

Grandfather, it seems, had once studied with the aim of becoming a chemist, and had put all his knowledge of a certain side of chemistry into this work, which knowledge Steevens had copied almost verbatim.

Here, as in the playlet itself, was internal evidence of the real authorship, and the two quite original ideas, taken together, formed absolute proof of how Steevens got the plots of his stories.

Tillary Steevens had ridden to fortune, and was still riding to even greater fortune, on work that belonged to me.

With my small capital I could not afford to eat too often, and I was both hungry and tired, but, more than both of these, determined to get at Steevens somehow.

I had no fear of being traced, and planned, now, to head straight for Tillary Steevens and Some recompense for his theft from me.

Tillary Steevens and some recompense for his theft from me, and thinking quite a lot about the girl Marguerite, wondering how she would come out of this and what her father would say to her if and when he learned that Gian Zaccone had been found in her studio.

Steevens whos a collectah ob odd tings specially if deya jonahs o jinxes hes done got his greedy eyes on de scroll of some po actah man whut went craizy and tinked his skoll was ham and eggs and lef it to somebody, and one of Mist Steevens naybors done finly git to own it.

Tillary Steevens did not have a tenth of the brains with which to do it.