My Southern Friends ...Carleton, 1863 - 308 páginas |
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... four years flew away - flew as fast as years that are winged with youth and love always fly ; and though her father was harsh , and her aunt cold and stern , she did not know a grief , or shed a tear , in all that time . One day , late ...
... four years flew away - flew as fast as years that are winged with youth and love always fly ; and though her father was harsh , and her aunt cold and stern , she did not know a grief , or shed a tear , in all that time . One day , late ...
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... four dollars and twenty cents in the world . This she made furnish food to her- self and her child for four long weeks , while she vainly sought for work . She offered to do anything - to THE DYING MOTHER . 37.
... four dollars and twenty cents in the world . This she made furnish food to her- self and her child for four long weeks , while she vainly sought for work . She offered to do anything - to THE DYING MOTHER . 37.
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... four days she had not tasted food . Her child was sick . She had begged a few crumbs for him , but even he had eaten nothing all day . Then the tempter came , and - why need I say it ? -she sinned . Some months after that , she noticed ...
... four days she had not tasted food . Her child was sick . She had begged a few crumbs for him , but even he had eaten nothing all day . Then the tempter came , and - why need I say it ? -she sinned . Some months after that , she noticed ...
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... four miles an hour - over the " slews " and ruts made by the recent rains . Shortly after we started , the woman said to me : fa " I say , stranger , ye han't no " backer ' bout ye , hev ye ? " I was about to say I had none , when ...
... four miles an hour - over the " slews " and ruts made by the recent rains . Shortly after we started , the woman said to me : fa " I say , stranger , ye han't no " backer ' bout ye , hev ye ? " I was about to say I had none , when ...
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... four " bits " for " as much as a man could tote . " I was introduced by the Squire to Tom himself , the illus- trious founder of the village . He was a stout , bloated speci- men of humanity , with a red , pimpled face , a long grizzly ...
... four " bits " for " as much as a man could tote . " I was introduced by the Squire to Tom himself , the illus- trious founder of the village . He was a stout , bloated speci- men of humanity , with a red , pimpled face , a long grizzly ...
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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
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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...