 Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy and suppressed enthusiasm. All had the earnestness which might be expected of men engaged in an enterprise beset with difficulty and perhaps with peril. The fine, intellectual head of Garrison,...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 1661874Full view - About this book
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 416 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...J. May, mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys, — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, so genial, tender, and loving,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 412 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...J. May, mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys, — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, so genial, tender, and loving,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 412 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...J. May, mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys, — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, so genial, tender, and loving,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 458 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...J. May, mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys, — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, so genial, tender, and loving,... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 438 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...Garrison, prematurely bald, was conspicuous ; the sunny -faced young man at his side, in whom all the beatitudes seemed to find expression, was Samuel... | |
 | William James Linton - Poets, American - 1893 - 222 pages
...nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned toward me wore a look of expectancy and suppressed enthusiasm...in an enterprise beset with difficulty, and perhaps peril The fine intellectual head of Garrison, prematurely bald, was conspicuous ; the sunny-faced young... | |
 | Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1901 - 544 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...might be expected of men engaged in an enterprise boot with difficulty and perhaps with peril. The fine, intellectual head of Garrison, prematurely bald,... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1902
...nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned toward me wore a look of expectancy and suppressed enthusiasm;...in an enterprise beset with difficulty, and perhaps peril. The fine intellectual head of Garrison, prematurely bald, was conspicuous; the sunny-faced young... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - Poets, American - 1903 - 344 pages
...period. They were nearly all plainly dressed, with a view to comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned towards me wore a look of expectancy...J. May, mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys, — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, 1 Prose Works, iii. 171. THE... | |
 | Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 228 pages
...comfort rather than elegance. Many of the faces turned toward me wore a look of expectancy and supprest enthusiasm. All had the earnestness which might be...May,' mingling in his veins the best blood of the Sewalls and Quincys — a man so exceptionally pure and large-hearted, so genial, tender, and loving,... | |
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