They say it is jest the thing-that it is goin to wipe out slavery, and prevent the "Union as it was" ever being restored; and then it is dun so cutely that a good menny people won't see through it.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith
"Taint allas as the ungodly gets fetched up with so cutely.
"A Son of the Hills"
Harriet T. Comstock
Not only does the star male hover about Hetty, cutely perched on a fallen log with her dainty, gleaming ankles crossed, and looking so fresh and nifty and feminine, but I'm darned if three or four of the other males don't catch the contagion of her woman's presence and hang round her, too, fetching her food of every kind there, feeding her spoonfuls of Aggie Tuttle's plum preserves, and all like that, one comical thing after another.
"Somewhere in Red Gap"
Harry Leon Wilson