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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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...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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...tions pertaining to ovine surgery and physic; spirits of wine, turpentine, tar, magnesia, ginger, and castor oil being the chief. On a triangular shel... ...e ground. In front it was formed of board nailed to posts and covered with tar as a preservative. Through crevices in the roof and side spread streaks... ...‘Cain Ball!’ ‘Yes, Mister Oak; here I be!’ Cainy now runs forward with the tar pot. ‘B. E.’ is newly stamped upon the shorn skin, and away the simple ...

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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...

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... of his surprise in one simple English word, friendly to the mouth of Jack-tar and the sooty pitman, and hurried to spread the news round the servants...

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...t and grease; the sails were gray with grime; a strangling odor of oil and tar, of cooking and of opium, of Chinese punk and drying fish, pervaded all...

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... Marfa Timofyevna’s room, by the light of a little lamp hanging before the tar- nished old holy images, Lavretsky was sitting in a low chair, his elbo...

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...- tin’ to be genewine moss-backs-very hair a rope-yarn an’ blood Stockholm tar.” He spoke down the cabin stairs. “Guess you’re mistook in your judgmen...

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...n order to sup- port her austerities. But these were scandals, invented to tar- nish this great sanctity of which all the other nunneries were jealous...

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...he International T ribunal should have power to consider and set aside all tar- iffs and localised privileges that seem grossly unfair or seri- ously ...

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... selectmen leaning on the long counter, in an atmosphere of rope, leather, tar and coffee- beans. Mr. Royall, though monosyllabic at home, was not ave...