Stories of American Life, Volume 2Mary Russell Mitford H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 - Short stories, American |
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... poor father and mother have said and thought , had they seen me emerging , at the dawn of day , from this obscure den , covered with feathers ; haggard with want of rest , or red in the face with the liquor I had swallowed in the course ...
... poor father and mother have said and thought , had they seen me emerging , at the dawn of day , from this obscure den , covered with feathers ; haggard with want of rest , or red in the face with the liquor I had swallowed in the course ...
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... nor debased past all recovery ; and notwithstanding my occa- sionally keen and bitter stings of conscience , I In fine , I became In fine , I became poor ; and was not yet driven to drinking as a refuge from THE DRUNKARD . 39.
... nor debased past all recovery ; and notwithstanding my occa- sionally keen and bitter stings of conscience , I In fine , I became In fine , I became poor ; and was not yet driven to drinking as a refuge from THE DRUNKARD . 39.
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... poor wife and children . From time to time , during the progress of the scenes I have just been sketching , Amelia had been strongly urged by her friends to leave me ; but she always mildly , yet peremptorily refused . " My lot ...
... poor wife and children . From time to time , during the progress of the scenes I have just been sketching , Amelia had been strongly urged by her friends to leave me ; but she always mildly , yet peremptorily refused . " My lot ...
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... poor Amelia ; who now , at times , even to my blunted perceptions , exhibited eccentricities , that brutified as I was , made me shudder . Her mind was sometimes evidently not mistress of itself ; and her vivacity became at in- tervals ...
... poor Amelia ; who now , at times , even to my blunted perceptions , exhibited eccentricities , that brutified as I was , made me shudder . Her mind was sometimes evidently not mistress of itself ; and her vivacity became at in- tervals ...
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... poor chil- dren were beginning to feel the effects of that alienation of mind , which was now speedily ap- proaching on their mother . They ran wild about the house and in the fields , ragged and filthy . They were old enough to see the ...
... poor chil- dren were beginning to feel the effects of that alienation of mind , which was now speedily ap- proaching on their mother . They ran wild about the house and in the fields , ragged and filthy . They were old enough to see the ...
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Page 253 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If...
Page 10 - It was very evident too, from the dryness of the snow, and the brittleness of the twigs, which snapped off as he brushed his way through the thickets, that the weather was intensely cold; yet the perspiration was rolling in large drops from his brow. He stopped at a clear spring, and thrusting his hands into the cold water, attempted to carry a portion of it to his lips; but the element recoiled and hissed, as if his hands and lips had been composed of red hot iron. Pete felt quite puzzled when he...
Page 123 - Both warbling of one~song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; Hut yet a union in partition, — Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Page 299 - To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPPED TWO FEMALE 'PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL HOLE.
Page 214 - But thou, a School-boy, to the sea hadst carried Undying recollections ; Nature there Was with thee ; she, who loved us both, she still Was with thee ; and even so didst thou become A silent Poet ; from the solitude Of the vast sea didst bring a watchful heart Still couchant, an inevitable ear, And an eye practised like a blind man's touch.
Page 158 - ... time of the night they would, Morgan was seen sitting upright in his hammock, with his eyes glaring wide open. When his turn came to take' his watch upon deck, his conduct was equally strange. He would stand stock still in one place, gazing at the stars, or the ocean, apparently unconscious of his situation ; and when roused by his companions, fall flat on the deck in a swoon.
Page 165 - That very night the ghost made its appearance on board the frigate, and passed its cold wet hand over the face of Tom Brown, to whom Morgan had left his watch and chest of clothes. The poor fellow bawled out lustily; but before any pursuit could be made, the ghost had disappeared in the forward part of the ship as usual. After this Billy again appeared two or three times alternately to some one of his old messmates ; sometimes in the town, at others on board the frigate, but always in the dead of...
Page 143 - ... to attack ; and even that flank was rendered difficult of approach, by resting upon a steep ridge.
Page 173 - R— followed him into the house, where he found a comely goodnatured dame, and two or three yellow-haired boys and girls, all in a fluster at the stranger. The house had an air of comfort, and the mistress, by her stirring activity, accompanied with smiling looks withal, seemed pleased at the rare incident of a stranger's entering their door.
Page 152 - A skirmishing was, however, kept up by both sides — the Indians sallying out of their works by small parties, firing, and suddenly retreating — making the woods at the same time to resound with their war-whoops, piercing the air from point to point as though the tangled forest were alive with their grim-visaged warriors. Correctly judging that the hill upon his right was occupied by the savages, Gen.