The grounds about this edifice were neglected ; horses were grazing around the piazzas, over which weie strewed saddles,whips, horse blankets, and the motley paraphernalia with which planters love to lumber their galleries. On nearly every piazza in Mississippi.... The South-west - Page 96by Joseph Holt Ingraham - 1835Full view - About this book
| Joseph Holt Ingraham - Mississippi - 1835 - 306 pages
...were neglected ; horses were grazing around i 2 the piazzas, over which were strewed saddles, whips, horse blankets, and the motley paraphernalia with...ostentation, but for use. Here they wash, lounge, often sleepj and take their meals. — Here will the stranger or visitor be invited to take a chair, or recline... | |
| Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1907 - 1026 pages
...neglected ; horses were grazing around the piazzas, over which were strewed saddles, whips, horseblankets, and the motley paraphernalia with which planters love...may be found a washstand, bowl, pitcher, towel and water bucket, for general accomodation. But the southern gallery is not constructed, like those at... | |
| Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1907 - 1030 pages
...neglected ; horses were grazing around the piazzas, over which were strewed saddles, whips, horseblankets. and the motley paraphernalia with which planters love...galleries. On nearly every piazza in Mississippi may he found a washstand, bowl, pitcher, towel and water bucket, for general accomodation. But the southern... | |
| William Barksdale Maynard - Architecture - 2002 - 348 pages
...southern porch as a workplace. He marveled at "the piazzas, over which were strewed saddles, whips, horse blankets, and the motley paraphernalia with...wash, lounge, often sleep, and take their meals." Lest such accounts seem quaint, it is well to remember that the work that took place on porches was... | |
| Richard H. Schein - Social Science - 2006 - 270 pages
...edifice were neglected, horses were grazing around the piazzas, over which were strewn saddles, whips, horse blankets, and the motley paraphernalia with which planters love to lumber their galleries." The South-West by a Yankee, Volume 2 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1835), 97-100. 22. Gamble, "The... | |
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