Lexicographical Neighbors of Peartest
Literary usage of Peartest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... Wednesday evening: "I 'low they'll app'int the Squire to gin out the words
to-night. They mos' always do, you see, kase he's the peartest ole man in ..."
2. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1907)
"Of all the gals what set aroun' the pile of corn thet day, A-twistin' off the
rustlin' husks ez if 'twas only play, The peartest one of all the lot—'n they ..."
3. The Raid of the Guerilla: And Other Stories by Mary Noailles Murfree, Charles Egbert Craddock (1912)
"Didn't seem beset with them rheumatics he used ter talk about—peartest leetle 'possum
of a baby! " Tank Dysart lost no time in his investigations and he had ..."
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