Sawny

And a small wooden snake, carved of cherry wood, with the name Sawny scratched on its underside.

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So home to dinner, and after dinner I took coach and to the King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his mother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew," which hath some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the best part, "Sawny,"

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

So home to dinner, and after dinner I took coach and to the King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his mother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew," which hath some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the best part, "Sawny,"

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his mother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew," which hath some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the best part, "Sawny,"

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 52: April 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668

So home to dinner, and after dinner I took coach and to the King's house, and by and by comes after me my wife with W. Hewer and his mother and Barker, and there we saw "The Tameing of a Shrew," which hath some very good pieces in it, but generally is but a mean play; and the best part, "Sawny,"

The Diary of Samuel Pepys, April 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667

Sawny remarked, as he shambled back to the woodpile.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

William and Billy, the gardener; Delia, the laundress; Lucy, the maid; Sawny, the "woodpile boy" and Oliver, who "went wid de buggy," attracted by the spectacle, gathered around the outskirts.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

Den Marm Charlotte 'she begun agin 'bout your bonnet bein' missed and she searchin 'fur hit all de time, and I hear her tell Sawny it wuz red and had black flowers on hit.

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

"It hath some very good pieces in it," writes Pepys, "but generally is but a mean play, and the best part, Sawny, done by Lacy, hath not half its life by reason of the words, I suppose, not being understood, at least by me."

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All the swamps and woods in Sawny were in bad repute.

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