Ten Years in the United States: Being an Englishman's View of Men and Things in the North Ad South |
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... walking forward among the men . It was quite a pleasure , yet somehow disappointing , to find that the State , with the pretty name of Virginia , seemed , so far as the map showed , quite an English sort of a country . It was named ...
... walking forward among the men . It was quite a pleasure , yet somehow disappointing , to find that the State , with the pretty name of Virginia , seemed , so far as the map showed , quite an English sort of a country . It was named ...
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... walk with me to my destination . He was not well acquainted with the road , but he was told he couldn't miss it with a little care . At first we walked along the carriage - way ; the dark forest on both sides , with a few lightning ...
... walk with me to my destination . He was not well acquainted with the road , but he was told he couldn't miss it with a little care . At first we walked along the carriage - way ; the dark forest on both sides , with a few lightning ...
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... walking a little farther my pioneer stood still , lost ; then suddenly exclaimed , " Dar's a dorg , " meaning that he heard a dog bark . We pushed on , and came to a farm road , then to a wooden gate , and soon saw a light . The negro ...
... walking a little farther my pioneer stood still , lost ; then suddenly exclaimed , " Dar's a dorg , " meaning that he heard a dog bark . We pushed on , and came to a farm road , then to a wooden gate , and soon saw a light . The negro ...
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... walk in and rest myself . I had merely noticed that the house I was entering was large , not very new , mostly of brick , with a plain whitened portico of wood in front , around the corners of which clustered some climbing plant . From ...
... walk in and rest myself . I had merely noticed that the house I was entering was large , not very new , mostly of brick , with a plain whitened portico of wood in front , around the corners of which clustered some climbing plant . From ...
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... I was always fond of details myself , and rarely found travellers sufficiently minute in this respect . ) The farm , the family , and the dwelling of Walk round the Farm . 21 which I now speak 20 Ten Years in the United States .
... I was always fond of details myself , and rarely found travellers sufficiently minute in this respect . ) The farm , the family , and the dwelling of Walk round the Farm . 21 which I now speak 20 Ten Years in the United States .
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