I have no desire to go up in one but they sure are purty from the ground. datingjesus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gentle reader, and the rest of you sinners: « Dating Jesus] Reference

Ain't the prettiest thing on the rack, but like the old man said, "purty is as purty does.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Brief Guide to Feckless* Rifles] Reference

"Well, they ain't what ye mout call purty, that's a fack," said the guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 4] Reference

All this is overlooked because he talks "purty" to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Betsy came on Saturday to show her how "purty" they were.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

He desired "purty" clothes: it made the acting look better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

An 'swear heem in English purty loud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems] Reference

He's so dodgasted "purty" that the children cry for him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12] Reference

Well, dis niggah will try to spile yo 'purty plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

And mebbe I happen to be purty much o 'the law myself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

Rice's son till he had a purty good mount of larnin '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

"Johnny's sick, Mr. Bowen, an 'purty bad, I'm afeard.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

She was awful busy and forgot it and it burnt purty bad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

"Well, I reckon it means he must be a purty good rider.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

An 'de stripes along its purty skin wus comin' one by one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study] Reference

"Jude has purty well bidden the whole top of the mountain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference

He's purty handy around here and I thought you better keep him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference

"It's purty bad stuff 'at Lem sells, I allow," observed Walky Dexter.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Janice Day Won] Reference

I've been purty curious about this precious package ever since I see it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

We could raise our own gardens and in dat way we had purty plenty to eat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

Granddaddy thought it was beautiful too -- although he called it "purty.".    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

She got up and give it something out of a bottle and purty soon it was dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

Four nights from now it will rise purty late, an 'den we'll proceed to bizness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference

"It's as purty as them glasses of Mis 'Worth'ton's," was her final word of praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference

He was purty hard on them too, as they had to work just like they never got tired.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

Ef I can't make ye a purty dress, 'cause o 'my back an' my bones, there's them that kin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference

We made purty, long back-combs out'n cow horn, and knitting needles out'n second hickory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

"Begorrah an 'it's a purty state ye're in, sor," he said, eyeing me with much commiseration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

It was a two-story log house, and the rooms was awful big and they was purty furniture in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference

Thar war tears in her big blue eyes an 'on her purty cheeks, but she warn't cryin' none, then.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

One's 'bout stacked up on the sand, yender, and t'other'll be waitin 'fur yer orders purty soon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

Yankees wid dere purty clothes, I didn't like de way dey took marster's stuff an 'I tole 'em so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference

Miss Mary jest married Master Wash because he was a purty boy, and he sure was a fine looking man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives] Reference