To every one whom he met, Pete, whose intellect seemed to have weakened in sympathy with his frame, remarked feebly that he was consid'able shuck up like, and vouchsafed no other explanation.

Even to his wife he only said that he felt purty consid'able shuck up like, and that the boys would have to get on to-night without him.

There are some scoundrels whose very malignity is shaken out of them for the time being by a thorough drubbing.
"I'm afraid you're going to have trouble with your arm, Bud," said Ralph tenderly.
"Never mind; I put in my best licks fer _Him_ that air time, Mr.
Hartsook." Ralph shivered a little at thought of this, but if it was right to knock Jones down at all, why might not Bud do it "heartily as unto the Lord ?" Gideon did not feel any more honest pleasure in chastising the Midianites than did Bud in sending Pete Jones away purty consid'able shuck up like..