aloose

Add the commas: Here is this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen, and headed toward Florida, and you read here what it says he did to these people.

Punctuation and Dialogue joshenglish 2006

Consider this example from Flannery O'Conner's "A Good Man Is Hard to Find": Here is this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people.

Punctuation and Dialogue joshenglish 2006

The word "aloose" (as well as others I haven't quoted) moves the speaker toward the generic American South.

Punctuation and Dialogue joshenglish 2006

Well, the News and Observer wouldn't turn it aloose.

Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, May 16, 1987. Interview C-0035. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1987

I wouldn't take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it.

AGoodManIsHardToFindAndOtherStories O'Connor, Flannery 1955

She said that after the corn was shucked, cotton picked, or quilts quilted, they always gave them plenty of good things to eat and drink and let them aloose to enjoy themselves for the balance of the night.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

If you hollowed and some one bring a torch to the door the Jack O'lantern would turn you aloose.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

Sometimes, after I watched them awhile I'd turn 'em aloose and watch 'em scoot back to their natural world.

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton 1934

After the preacher began he turned aloose a pack of hounds on the track, who soon made the building resound with their eager yelps.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

He fell on the instant, which occasioned a momentary halt, and letting myself aloose at the top, recovered an upright position at the bottom, but in a dilapidated plight.

Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906