Pleasant Waters: a Story of Southern Life and CharacterLippincott, 1888 - 215 Seiten |
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Pleasant Waters: Story of Southern Life and Character (Classic Reprint) Graham Claytor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Pleasant Waters: A Story of Southern Life and Character Graham Claytor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
Pleasant Waters: A Story of Southern Life and Character Graham Claytor Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2017 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ain't Aunt Emily beauty Bentley's Blue Ridge Mountains boasted bond boys Brook Farm Carr Michael Cecelia CHAPTER chile church Claxton Colonel Waters corner cottage court-house dark daughter dear debt Dick Bentley door eyes face father felt fence gaze gwine hair hand humble hung Innu Josiah Baldwin lady land letter Littleton looked marriage Mars Pleas matter means merchant mighty mind missus morning mortgage mother mountains native nature neighbors never nigger night Norton nuffin old darkey once Osage-orange parlor passed paused Pleasant Waters Pompey poor porch proud Quality Hill rascal replied Richard Bentley ruins slaves smile soldier stood street sweet talk thought to-day town trees Uncle Abe village Virginia Virginia creeper walked wall Waters mansion Waters's wild William Waters yard young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Still o'er these scenes my mem'ry wakes, And fondly broods with miser care! Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.
Seite 78 - That for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar cash in hand paid by the party of the second part to the party of the first part...
Seite 168 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Seite 107 - She shall be sportive as the fawn That wild with glee across the lawn Or up the mountain springs ; And hers shall be the breathing balm, And hers the silence and the calm Of mute insensate things.
Seite 78 - The party of the first part agrees to sell and the party of the second part agrees to buy, all of the right, title and interest of the said party of the first part in and to the...
Seite 61 - O'er undulating waves the broom had made ; Reminding me of those of hideous forms That met us as we passed the cape of storms, Where high and loud they break, and peace comes never ; They roll and foam, and roll and foam for ever. But...
Seite 88 - Burns — and aiblins ane or twa mair, there is still poetry amang our braes, — and o' nae shepherd on our Scottish hills could it be truly said, in the language o' Wordsworth : — A primrose on the river's brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. For as gude a poet as Wordsworth, and in my opinion, a better too, has tauld us what he felt frae the sicht o
Seite 78 - And in consideration of the premises the said party of the first part, hath agreed, and by these presents doth agree...
Seite 61 - I deemed no moss my eyes had ever seen Had been so lovely, brilliant, fresh, and green, And guessed some infant hand had placed it there, And prized its hue, so exquisite, so rare.
Seite 100 - ... Maggie's come. Here, John, let me help you off with your coat, and draw up to the fire ; it's a cold afternoon." Here Uncle Grey made his appearance in tolerably well-blacked boots and a generally " brisked-up" air, which delighted Maggie's quick eye even while she hugged him heartily. " Dear, dear uncle, I am so glad to see you ! And you are looking so well.