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Page 164
... Phil , who had spent some hours furbishing it up for so important an occasion as the arrival of English strangers . Its wheels were heavy with orange - colored clay , and it was spattered with blotches of red mud , from its foot - board ...
... Phil , who had spent some hours furbishing it up for so important an occasion as the arrival of English strangers . Its wheels were heavy with orange - colored clay , and it was spattered with blotches of red mud , from its foot - board ...
Page 165
... Phil , " said Israel , holding out his hand . " Wish't she would marry you an ' git fixed down among us . I like her face . Its real Mandeville . I'd a knowed her any whars for one of the family . How she do favor her pa . " I shook ...
... Phil , " said Israel , holding out his hand . " Wish't she would marry you an ' git fixed down among us . I like her face . Its real Mandeville . I'd a knowed her any whars for one of the family . How she do favor her pa . " I shook ...
Page 166
... Phil talking to his horses , and reining them up to let us down easily , two wheels at a time , over great rocks of limestone . Every now and then , we plunged into a mud - hole . Down went the horses over their knees in mud . Then came ...
... Phil talking to his horses , and reining them up to let us down easily , two wheels at a time , over great rocks of limestone . Every now and then , we plunged into a mud - hole . Down went the horses over their knees in mud . Then came ...
Page 167
... Phil , " said Tyrell , with his funny look , " tell us how it came so ? " " Well , " said Phil , " when I was a boy it was getting into a pretty bad state , and the negroes have torn down some of the rails to save themselves the trouble ...
... Phil , " said Tyrell , with his funny look , " tell us how it came so ? " " Well , " said Phil , " when I was a boy it was getting into a pretty bad state , and the negroes have torn down some of the rails to save themselves the trouble ...
Page 170
... Phil and the children of the family , including an intelligent and gentlemanly little boy from Baltimore , taking their tea at a side - table . Good eating , good humor , and a good understanding seemed to prevail everywhere . Perhaps ...
... Phil and the children of the family , including an intelligent and gentlemanly little boy from Baltimore , taking their tea at a side - table . Good eating , good humor , and a good understanding seemed to prevail everywhere . Perhaps ...
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Page 25 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Page 272 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 280 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant when they contended with me ; what then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb, make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 83 - To come and go with tidings from the heart, As it a running messenger had been.
Page 232 - When at a play to laugh, or cry, Yet cannot tell the reason why; Never to hold her tongue a minute, While all she prates has nothing in it ; Whole hours can with a coxcomb sit, And take his nonsense all for wit ; Her learning mounts to read a song, But half the words pronouncing wrong ; • Has every repartee in store She spoke ten thousand times before...
Page 98 - THERE is a change — and I am poor; Your Love hath been, nor long ago, A Fountain at my fond Heart's door, Whose only business was to flow; And flow it did; not taking heed Of its own bounty, or my need.
Page 142 - With clashing wheel, and lifting keel, And smoking torch on high, When winds are loud, and billows reel, She thunders foaming by ; When seas are silent and serene, With even beam she glides, The sunshine glimmering through the green That skirts her gleaming sides.
Page 380 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Page 213 - With thy rude ploughshare, Death, turn up the sod, And spread the furrow for the seed we sow ; This is the field and Acre of our God. This is the place, where human harvests grow ! TO THE RIVER CHARLES.
Page 157 - The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull.