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... hour’s start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they’d tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn’t wait for no brea... ...nd lanes was just mud; they warn’t noth ing else but mud — mud as black as tar and nigh about a foot deep in some places, and two or three inches d... ...hinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friend less cast out women that come along here, d... ... — that is, I knowed it was the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn’t look like nothing in the world that was hum...

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...OOP of amber slips away Upon an ether sea, And wrecks in peace a purple tar, The son of ecstasy. 142 CIX OF bronze and blaze The no...

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...was behind me. Grinding my teeth and swearing horribly, I drew that scimi- tar which never yet failed its blow, {2} and rushed at the In- dian. He cam...

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... of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope yarn, a roving popu lation in oilskin hats, a prett...

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... Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, ...

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...d it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling. A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a ... ... my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then. The smell of tar and salt was something new. I saw the most wonderful figureheads, that ...

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...dlewest; a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tar-paper shan- ties and silos likes red towers, of clumsy speech and a hop... ...ons against winter were busily dug out of moth-ball- sprinkled drawers and tar-bags in closets, and all over town small boys were squealing, “Oh, ther... ... discovered mis- ery and dead hope. In a shack of thin boards covered with tar-paper she saw the washerwoman, Mrs. Steinhof, working in gray steam. Ou... ...ssional-man’s-wife. She started for home, through the small slum. Before a tar-paper shack, at a gateless gate, a man in rough brown dogskin coat and ... ...ikowsky—the virile chords an echo of the red laugh- ing philosopher of the tar-paper shack. (When she hinted to Vida, “Isn’t there a man here who amus... ...ched to the rear was a lean-to of storm streaked pine lumber with a sanded tar roof—a staggering doubtful shed behind which was a heap of ashes, splin...

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...e counted the day almost fair. Long lines of barges lay one after another along the ca- nal; many of them looking mighty spruce and shipshape in their...

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...g; ballast of heavy bour- geoisie; working-men and sailor-men touched with tar; in her cabins the lucky passengers; elegant midshipmen smoke their cig...

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...oom, will feel as hot as a hand that has given the rigging a lick with bad tar. Come, mistress, bring up in this here chair, and tell me how you like ... ... her hair as black and glistening as rig- ging that has just had a lick of tar? doesn’ t she move as stately 157 James Fenimore Cooper as a first-rat... ...ween his epithets, the impressive terms of “monkey ,” “parrot,” “picnic,” “tar pot,” and “linguisters” We shall not attempt to explain his meaning nor... ...dropsy!” said Marmaduke. 190 The Pioneers “I mought, Judge,” said the old tar, with a broad grin; “but there was no need of the medicine chest for a ... ...d “half-seas-over.” It was no easy thing to destroy the balance of the old tar by the effects of liquor, for, as he expressed it him- self, “he was to...

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...o London without farther apprehension;— there to witness, in due time, the tar-barrels of Waterloo, and other phenomena that followed. Captain Sterlin... ... make a German Professor the hero of Sartor. Berkeley began his Siris with tar-water; but what can English readers be expected to make of Gukguk by wa...

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...r the letter. So sure I was I had slipped them. Therefore I did not send a tar [telegram] to any one saying where the letter lay. I wished the credit ... ...o the place where I hid that letter I was sent to find. I cannot go to the tar office in this guise.’ ‘Is it not enough I have saved thy neck?’ ‘Not i...

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... terms, to deliver up the several particulars. He first called for my scimi tar, which I took out, scabbard and all. In the mean time he ordered thre... ...yes were wholly fixed upon his majesty. He then desired me to draw my scimi tar, which, although it had got some rust by the sea water, was, in most ...

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...promised to be effectual. “Down with the old tyrant! Thrash him! Hang him! Tar and feather the viper’s fry! the wizard! the body snatcher!” bellowed t... ...eb of his own devil ish spider,— ‘t is long enough! T ar and feather him! tar and feather him!” It was certainly one of those crises that show a man ...

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...s, many thousand bales of cotton, wheat and oats in thousands of quarters, tar, tur- pentine, rum, gunpowder, &c., continued through many hours of dar... ...- office directories would be of no use to him; nor link-boys; nor blazing tar-barrels. He wanders in a fog such as sits upon the banks of Cocytus. He...

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...impatient, it would seem, of farther delay, he had caught down a sword and tar- get, and was about to enter the great gallery, with the purpose, doubt... ...ride and bride- groom should not again meet until they were before the al- tar. The hour had already struck that summoned the bride- groom thither, an...

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...sway of the mastheads against the motionless, the soulless gravity of mor- tar and stones. As you pass alongside each hopeless prisoner chained to the...