An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States |
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... cloth , or their own Sea - Island cotton . auctioneer in America is a curious specimen of the biped creation . He is usually a swaggering , consequential sort of fellow , and drives away at his calling with wondrous impudence and perti ...
... cloth , or their own Sea - Island cotton . auctioneer in America is a curious specimen of the biped creation . He is usually a swaggering , consequential sort of fellow , and drives away at his calling with wondrous impudence and perti ...
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... cloth , and wore on his head a fantastical cap , formed of a racoon - skin , beauti- fully striped , the ears projecting just above his forehead on each side , while the forefeet of the animal , decorated with red cloth , formed the ear ...
... cloth , and wore on his head a fantastical cap , formed of a racoon - skin , beauti- fully striped , the ears projecting just above his forehead on each side , while the forefeet of the animal , decorated with red cloth , formed the ear ...
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... cloth , their favourite costume ; the crimson or other gaudy - coloured selvedge forming a con- spicuous ornament . Like all the aborigines of America , they cling with tenacity to primeval habits and customs , resisting every attempt ...
... cloth , their favourite costume ; the crimson or other gaudy - coloured selvedge forming a con- spicuous ornament . Like all the aborigines of America , they cling with tenacity to primeval habits and customs , resisting every attempt ...
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... clothes and descended to the bar of the hotel . Here several of the inmates were assembled , and were preparing to cross the creek with lanterns , to explore the swamp , cries of distress having been distinctly heard , as of some ...
... clothes and descended to the bar of the hotel . Here several of the inmates were assembled , and were preparing to cross the creek with lanterns , to explore the swamp , cries of distress having been distinctly heard , as of some ...
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... cloth , and wore large white hats ; their garb altogether resembling that of the more respectable Society of Friends , in America . The resemblance , however , ceases with the dress , for , if reports speak true , and they are many ...
... cloth , and wore large white hats ; their garb altogether resembling that of the more respectable Society of Friends , in America . The resemblance , however , ceases with the dress , for , if reports speak true , and they are many ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...