Peculiar: A Tale of the Great TransitionCarleton, 1864 - 500 páginas |
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... minutes the proper paper was drawn up , witnessed , and signed , and Mr. Jones gave a receipt for the box . Briefly Toussaint now explained to Charlton the manner in which the box had been disposed of . Charlton was nonplussed . It ...
... minutes the proper paper was drawn up , witnessed , and signed , and Mr. Jones gave a receipt for the box . Briefly Toussaint now explained to Charlton the manner in which the box had been disposed of . Charlton was nonplussed . It ...
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... minutes before the time . It is n't yet twelve . Just step into that little closet and wait there till I call you . " The negro did as he was directed , and Charlton closed the door upon him . Five minutes after , the clock of Trinity ...
... minutes before the time . It is n't yet twelve . Just step into that little closet and wait there till I call you . " The negro did as he was directed , and Charlton closed the door upon him . Five minutes after , the clock of Trinity ...
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... girl in her hut , and no other human being within a distance of a quarter of a mile , she was lifted horizontally before his eyes into the air , and kept there sway- ing about at least a third of a minute , 36 PECULIAR .
... girl in her hut , and no other human being within a distance of a quarter of a mile , she was lifted horizontally before his eyes into the air , and kept there sway- ing about at least a third of a minute , 36 PECULIAR .
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... minute , while the drapery of her dress clung to her person as if held by an invisible hand . * A bandore - a stringed musical instrument the name of which has been converted by the negroes into banjo hung on a nail in the wall . One ...
... minute , while the drapery of her dress clung to her person as if held by an invisible hand . * A bandore - a stringed musical instrument the name of which has been converted by the negroes into banjo hung on a nail in the wall . One ...
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... minute or more . A pen would start up from the table and write an intelligible sentence . A castanet would be played on and dashed about furiously , as if by some invisible Bacchante . A clatter , as of the hammering of a hundred ...
... minute or more . A pen would start up from the table and write an intelligible sentence . A castanet would be played on and dashed about furiously , as if by some invisible Bacchante . A clatter , as of the hammering of a hundred ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Abolitionism Abolitionist arms Artful Dodger asked Aylesford barouche beautiful believe Berwick Berwick family Blake called Captain carriage Charles Charlton child Clara Colonel Delancy Hyde Colonel Hyde colored cried cui bono damned Yankee dear door dress drew Esha Estelle exclaimed eyes face father gentleman Gentry girl give hair hand heard heart hour hunderd hundred dollars Josephine Kenrick kiss Kunnle Laura letter look Madame Volney Maloney Massa minutes mother mulatto negro never nigger Number once Onslow Orleans passed Pat Maloney Peek Perdita person pocket Pompilard Pontiac poor quadroon Quattles Ratcliff replied returned Ripper Robson seemed Semmes slave slavery soon Street suddenly tell thar there's thought thousand dollars tion told took Toussaint Vance walked wife Wigman window Winslow woman words wounded Yankee
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Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind Tim A. Ryan Vista previa limitada - 2008 |