My Southern Friends ...Carleton, 1863 - 308 páginas |
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... appearance . Its front wall was of naked brick , through which the moisture had crept , dotting it every here and there with large water - stains and blotches of mould ; and its other sides were of rough boards , placed up- right , and ...
... appearance . Its front wall was of naked brick , through which the moisture had crept , dotting it every here and there with large water - stains and blotches of mould ; and its other sides were of rough boards , placed up- right , and ...
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... appearance . Her eye had a strange , wild light , and her face already wore the pallid hue of death . She was bolstered up in bed , and the little boy was standing by her side , weeping . I took her hand in mine , and in a voice which ...
... appearance . Her eye had a strange , wild light , and her face already wore the pallid hue of death . She was bolstered up in bed , and the little boy was standing by her side , weeping . I took her hand in mine , and in a voice which ...
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... appearance ; and , though somewhat careless in his dress , had a simple dig- nity about him that is not furnished by the tailor . The firm lines about his mouth , his strong jaw , wide nostrils , and large nose - straight as if cut ...
... appearance ; and , though somewhat careless in his dress , had a simple dig- nity about him that is not furnished by the tailor . The firm lines about his mouth , his strong jaw , wide nostrils , and large nose - straight as if cut ...
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... appearance showed that he was an habitué of the more fashionable quarter of his village ( the groggery ) , and a liberal imbiber of his own com pounds . He informed me that he did a right smart " busi- ness ; bought drygoods in " York ...
... appearance showed that he was an habitué of the more fashionable quarter of his village ( the groggery ) , and a liberal imbiber of his own com pounds . He informed me that he did a right smart " busi- ness ; bought drygoods in " York ...
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... appearance . She wore a thin woollen shawl , a clean red and yellow turban , white cotton stockings , and coarse untanned shoes . These last were nearly new , and very clumsy , and , like the rest of her costume , were travel - stained ...
... appearance . She wore a thin woollen shawl , a clean red and yellow turban , white cotton stockings , and coarse untanned shoes . These last were nearly new , and very clumsy , and , like the rest of her costume , were travel - stained ...
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My Southern Friends: All of which I Saw and Part of which I was James Roberts Gilmore Vista completa - 1864 |
Términos y frases comunes
ain't Ally anoder asked bery better bless blige Boss Joe bout bress Cale child chile Cragin cried darkies Dawsey Dinah doan't ebery exclaimed eyes face fader father Frank Gaston Gin'ral girl glad gwine haff hand he'm hun'red hundred dollars I'se inter jess John Hallet Jones county karn't Kate Kirke Larkin laughing leff looked Lord massa Robert master more'n mother Mulock nary neber negro never Newbern nigger nigs nohow nuff nuffin onst ooman Phyllis plantation reckon replied Preston right smart Robert Preston rose Rosey seated sell Selma Squire tell thar thet thet's told tone took trader turned turpentine Wall whar whip wife woman wuck yere young
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Página 167 - When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.
Página 125 - Her children rose up and called her blessed ; her husband also, and he praised her.' Such was ' the lady ' in the old Scottish house. Her speech was the Doric of her native land, as broad as that of her domestics. Trained from her earliest days to use her hands, and believing in the dignity of labour, she taught her daughters to be what the law, based on an old fact, still as a fiction...
Página 203 - Ole Aggy an' I hab trabbled de road. Hand in hand we hab gone ober de rocks ; fru de mud ; in de hot burning sand ; been out togedder in de cole, an
Página 203 - My chil'ren, lub one anoder; bar wid one anoder; be faithful ter one anoder. You hab started on a long journey; many rough places am in de road; many trubbles will spring up by de wayside; but gwo- on hand an...
Página 203 - ... peace hab broke fru de clouds, an' sent him bressed rays inter our hearts. We started jess like two young saplin's you's seed a growin' side by side in de woods. At fust we seemed 'way part fur de brambles, and de tick bushes, an...
Página 204 - way part, fur de brambles. an' de tick bushes, an' de ugly forns — [dem war our bad ways] — war atween us, but lub, like de sun, shone down on us, an' we grow'd. We grow'd till our heads got above de bushes ; till dis little branch, an' dat little branch — dem war our holy feelin's — put out toward one anoder, an' we come closer an
Página 204 - An' dough we'm ole trees now, an' sometime de wind blow, an' de storm rage fru de tops, an' freaten ter tear off de limbs, an' ter pull up de bery roots, we'm growin' closer an' closer, an' nearer an' nearer togedder ebery day. An' soon de ole tops will meet ; soon de ole branches, all cohered ober wid de gray moss, will twine roun' one anoder; soon de two ole trees will come, togedder, an...