
"The Road to Hell (Part 2)"
Song lyrics, The Road to Hell (1989)
Song Ain't it Grand to be Bloomin' Well Dead!
"The Road to Hell (Part 2)"
Song lyrics, The Road to Hell (1989)
Major Michael Hogan, p. 172
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Battle (1995)
“He ain't a copper just look at 'is boots!”
Act I
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)
“One day if I do go to heaven… I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google
Attributed
Context: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.
“Well, no offense:
Thar ain't no sense
In gittin' riled.”
Complete Poetical Works, III. IN DIALECT, Jim.
“A man ain't nothing but a man. But a son? Well, now, that's somebody.”
Source: Beloved (1987), Ch. 2
“What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big.”
Song lyrics, Empire Burlesque (1985), Tight Connection to My Heart (Has Anybody Seen My Love)