Southern SilhouettesH. Holt, 1887 - 376 pagine |
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bales Bayou Pierre Beelzebub big house Blue Lick boat boys buggy cabin called Captain carpet-bagger Charlie Knight church Colonel Rafe comfort cotton crape myrtle crops cypress vines dark daughter Davenport's Doctor door Elmira eyes face fellows Flaxville front gallery garden girl gone governess gray Gus Woodson gwine hand head heart horse I'se Ishum Jane Jane's Judge Judge's knew land Lige's Lindy lived looked Madeira vines Mammy Mammy's Mandy Mars Mely Jane ment Miss Flo Miss Mollie Miss's mother mule neighborhood neighbors never nigger night old Harvey Orleans Othello overseer's perhaps plantation planters quarters Rafe's rose Sambo sense side sitting Slaterville slaves sort stood Sutton sweet sweet potatoes sweet-gum tell thing tion Tony Tony's town tree Uncle Lige w'en w'ite folks waiting wife woman women woods yard young
Brani popolari
Pagina 148 - These are traits, and measures, and modes; and the true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, — no, but the kind of man the country turns out.
Pagina 192 - A term of contempt applied to a Northern settler in the southern part of the United States, after the close of the civil war, seeking only private gain cr political advancement...
Pagina 314 - Tony had been given any choice in 1 the matter, he would not have chosen to be born free, at a time when the pains and penalties attaching to that condition so far outweighed its factitious advantages.
Pagina 219 - twere Mammy, en she mus' 'a jes' started me, 'cause I war'n but jes