 | Washington Irving - 1828 - 540 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious eye, along 294 SUBJUGATION OF THE NATIVES. [BookVUI. the borders of their rivers, sifting the sands for the grains... | |
 | Religion - 1830 - 580 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...which every day grew more scanty, or to labour in the fields beneath the fervour of a tropical sun, to raise food for their task-masters, or to produce... | |
 | James Stephen - Antislavery movements - 1830 - 516 pages
...bodies and anxious eye, along the " borders of their rivers, sifting the sand for the grains of gold, or to " labour in their fields beneath the fervour...tropical sun, to raise food " for their task-masters. They sunk to sleep, weary and exhausted with " the certainty that the next day was to be but a repetition... | |
 | Washington Irving - America - 1841 - 440 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements bytho rude Indian dram. They were now obliged to grope, day by day, with bending body and anxious...sands for the grains of gold which every day grew more «canty; or to labour in their fields, beneath the fervour of a tropical sun, to raise food for their... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...every day grew more scanty ; or to labour in their field* beneath the fervour of .a tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters, or to produce the... | |
 | Conway Robinson, Virginia Historical Society - America - 1848 - 590 pages
...a constant, never ending task. They were now obliged to grope, day by day, along the borders of the rivers sifting the sands for the grains of gold which...tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters. A desperate resolution was now taken by them. They agreed among themselves not to cultivate articles... | |
 | Washington Irving - Astoria (Or.) - 1849 - 518 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...grains of gold which every day grew more scanty; or to labor in their fields beneath the fervor of a tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters, or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 554 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...grains of gold which every day grew more scanty ; or to labor in their fields beneath the fervor of a tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters, or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1849 - 510 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian dram. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...grains of gold which every day grew more scanty ; or to labor in their fields beneath the fervor of a tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters, or... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 518 pages
...mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They were now obliged to grope day by day, with bending body and anxious...grains of gold which every day grew more scanty ; or to labor in their fields beneath the fervor of a tropical sun, to raise food for their taskmasters, or... | |
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... day; the slumber during the sultry noontide heat by the fountain or the stream, or under the spreading palm-tree ; and the song, the dance, and the game in the mellow evening, when summoned to their simple amusements by the rude Indian drum. They... 
