 ... less than we made. We didn't have very nice food, but we had no physic to take, and no doctor's bills to pay. We had a great deal to make us happy, and still more to be thankful for; and I trust in God we were thankful for all of his blessings. I...  The Wigwam and the Cabin: Lst [and 2d] Series - Page 79by William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 233 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 268 pages
...God we were thankful for all of his blessings. I think we were, for he gave us other blessings; and for these, stranger, we are trying to be thankful...of odds and ends for us. But the chaps on board the steamboat—which was gone—had thrown down the stuff any where, and some of the salt was half melted... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - American fiction - 1859 - 502 pages
...God we were thankful for all of his blessings. I think we were, for he gave us other blessings ; and for these, stranger, we are trying to be thankful...us when to look after our plunder. When I got there 1 found a lot of things, some for us, and some for other people. There was a bag of coffee, a keg of... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1859 - 578 pages
...tote your plunder into the other room." — Hoffman, Winter in the West, Let. 33. The steamboat gun, you know, is the signal to tell us when to look after our plunder. — Simms, Wigwam and Cubin. To POACH. To tread soft ground, or snow and water, as cattle, whose feet... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1859 - 570 pages
...tote your plunder into the other room." — Hoffman, Winter in the West, Let. 33. The steamboat gun, you know, is the signal to tell us when to look after onr plunder. — Simms, Wigwam and Cabin. To POACH. To tread soft ground, or snow and water, as cattle,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 700 pages
...gauntlet," and from that time it has been in constant use in England. " We had heard the steamboatgun the night before, or something like it, and that,...signal to tell us when to look after our 'plunder" (WG Simms, The Last Wager.) " It is very rare here to see gentlementravellers carry their plunder,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 714 pages
...gauntlet," and from that time it has been in constant use in England. " We had heard the steamboatgun the night before, or something like it, and that,...signal to tell us when to look after our plunder." (WG Simms, The Last Wager.) " It is very rare here to see gentlementraveHers carry their plunder, except... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Americanisms - 1872 - 1030 pages
...gauntlet," and from that time it has been in constant use in England. " We had heard the steamboatgnn the night before, or something like it, and that,...signal to tell us when to look after our plunder." (WG Simms, The Last Wager.) " It is very rare here to see gentlementravellers carry their plunder,... | |
 | Maximilian Schele de Vere - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1872 - 708 pages
...use in England. " We had heard the steamboatgun the night before, or something like it, and that, yon know, is the signal to tell us when to look after our plunder.''1 (W. Or. Simms, TJie Last Wager.) " It is very rare here to see gentlementravellers carry... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - Americanisms - 1877 - 894 pages
...tote your plunder into the other room." — Hofman, Winter in the West, Let. 33. The steamboat gun, you know, is the signal to tell us when to look after our ptuiuter. — Simmj, IViywam an<l Ctibin. To ply. To sail; to go and come from. A vessel pitta between... | |
 | John Russell Bartlett - 1877 - 998 pages
...tote your plunder into the other room." — Huffman, Winter in the West, Let. 33. The steamboat gun, you know, is the signal to tell us when to look after our pluwler. — Simtnj, Wiyuxim and Cabin. To ply. To sail; to go and come from. A vessel plies between... | |
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