States, informally

Usage examples of sez.

Miss Fox, sez she, en she fotch de two fat pullets, en Brer Rabbit he mosied off home.

Wbitefield, sez to me, that she should think I would think twice before I danced and waltzed round waltzes.

And he sez, if Ardelia had forgot him in so short a time, mebby it wuz the best thing he could do, to try and forget her.

And as I sez this, Josiah turned and almost flew down the steps and into the buggy.

Slothrop runs right into it, bounces off, sez shit, opens the door to find her waving a big red damask tablecloth at him.

Mont Blanc sez hi, lake sez howdy too, Slothrop buys 20 cigarettes and a local paper, asks directions, gets in a tram that comes and with cold air through doors and windows to wake him up goes rolling into the City of Peace.

But like Lord Acton always sez, History is not woven by innocent hands.

Rumor sez he is cutting a swath these days across the Zone in a stolen American Special Services getup, posing as Frank Sinatra.

Outer Voices fall to plucking a non-melody that tradition sez represents two 18th-century Village Idiots vibrating their lower lips.

Sure, I gave her a bunch of flowers wid poppies in it, and daisies, and furze-blossom, and foxglove, and forgit-me-not, and midowsweet, and sez I to her, which of thim was the finest coloured.

And me wife sez when he come in, he sits down on the form be the door, and niver opens his lips.

The lesson is sad, as Dion always sez, but true: get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

He sez the colored man is right, and he will at once go to New York and open a Sabbath School for negro minstrels.