Hannah Thurston: A Story of American LifeG.P. Putnam, 1863 - 464 pages |
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... . 392 407 419 430 IN WHICH WE ATTEND ANOTHER MEETING IN FAVOR OF " WOMEN'S RIGHTS " CHAPTER XXXVI . 442 IN WHICH THE MAN AND WOMAN COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING ...... 455 CHAPTER I. LIBRAR IN WHICH WE ATTEND THE GREAT SEWING 8 CONTENTS .
... . 392 407 419 430 IN WHICH WE ATTEND ANOTHER MEETING IN FAVOR OF " WOMEN'S RIGHTS " CHAPTER XXXVI . 442 IN WHICH THE MAN AND WOMAN COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING ...... 455 CHAPTER I. LIBRAR IN WHICH WE ATTEND THE GREAT SEWING 8 CONTENTS .
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... meetings at the same time and place , and labor in company . It was a social arrangement which substituted one large gathering , all the more lively and interesting from HANNAH THURSTON STANFORD . IN WHICH WE ATTEND THE GREAT SEWING ...
... meetings at the same time and place , and labor in company . It was a social arrangement which substituted one large gathering , all the more lively and interesting from HANNAH THURSTON STANFORD . IN WHICH WE ATTEND THE GREAT SEWING ...
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... meeting of the Union , and nearly all the members were present . Their session was held at the house of Mr. Hamilton Bue , Agent of the " Saratoga Mutual " for the town of Ptolemy , and one of the Directors of the Bank at Tiberius , the ...
... meeting of the Union , and nearly all the members were present . Their session was held at the house of Mr. Hamilton Bue , Agent of the " Saratoga Mutual " for the town of Ptolemy , and one of the Directors of the Bank at Tiberius , the ...
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... meeting of the Union would be held at the Merryfield farm - house , a mile and a half from Ptolemy . This had been arranged by the prominent ladies , after a good deal of consultation . Mr. Merryfield still belonged to the congre ...
... meeting of the Union would be held at the Merryfield farm - house , a mile and a half from Ptolemy . This had been arranged by the prominent ladies , after a good deal of consultation . Mr. Merryfield still belonged to the congre ...
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... meeting the eye of the new owner . Mrs. Babb straightened her long spine , took out a buckskin purse , and , having put the money therein , began rubbing the steel clasp with the corner of her apron . Wood- bury , then , with a few ...
... meeting the eye of the new owner . Mrs. Babb straightened her long spine , took out a buckskin purse , and , having put the money therein , began rubbing the steel clasp with the corner of her apron . Wood- bury , then , with a few ...
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Abiram Anacreon answered Arbutus asked Atauga Babb Bemis betrayed Blake Bute Bute's character Cimmerian confess cottage cried door dream Dyce earnest exclaimed expression eyes face feeling felt friends gave give glad Grindle guests habit hair Hamilton Bue hand Hannah Thurston head hear heard heart hills horse housekeeper husband instinct knew ladies lake Lakeside latter light lips looked marriage Mary Wollstonecraft Maxwell Merryfield mind Miss Carrie Miss Dilworth Miss Thurston mother nature never night once perhaps Phillis Wheatley possession present Ptolemy reached reform Rivière du Loup Saguenay seat seemed Seth Wattles Sewing-Union side silence soon speaker spirit spoke stood strength sure sweet tender thee there's thing thought Tiberius tion tone took true truth turned uttered valley voice Waldo walk whispered widow wife woman women Women's Rights Woodbury Woodbury's words Zeno
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Page 363 - Ask me no more. Ask me no more: what answer should I give? I love not hollow cheek or faded eye : Yet, O my friend, I will not have thee die ! Ask me no more, lest I should bid thee live; Ask me no more.
Page 68 - Independence that all governments derive 'their just powers from the consent of the governed...
Page 200 - Gathering THE moon's on the lake, and the mist's on the brae, And the clan has a name that is nameless by day, Then gather, gather, gather, Grigalach!
Page 4 - I perceived peculiarities of development in American life which have escaped the notice of novelists, yet which are strikingly adapted to the purposes of fiction, both in the originality and occasional grotesqueness of their external manifestation, and the deeper questions which lie beneath the surface. I do not, therefore, rest the interest of the book on its slender plot, but on the fidelity with which it represents certain types of character and phases of society (p.
Page 251 - ... ought to have taught you how to go about these affairs, and not beat you so. Teag. Arra dear honey, I had too much wit of my own to be teached by him, or any body else ; he began to instruct me after that how I should serve the table, and such nasty things as those : one night I took ben a roasted fish in one hand, and a piece of bread in the other; the old gentleman was so saucy he would not take it, and told me 1 should bring nothing to him without a trencher below it.
Page 243 - Then fill to-night, with hearts as light, To loves as gay and fleeting As bubbles that swim on the beaker's brim, And break on the lips while meeting.
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Page 176 - His congregation, however, was very slowly brought to view the matter in the same light, and he was too sincerely attached to its members to give up his charge of them while any prospect of success remained. On this occasion, nevertheless — thanks to the zeal of some of hia flock, rather than his own power of wielding the thunderbolts of Terror — Mr.
Page 175 - The churches in the village undertook their periodical ' revivals ' which absorbed the interest of the community while they lasted. It was not the usual season in Ptolemy for such agitations of the religious atmosphere, but the Methodist clergyman, a very zealous and impassioned speaker, having initiated the movement with great success, the other sects became alarmed lest he should sweep all the repentant sinners of the place into his own fold. As soon as they could obtain help from Tiberius, the...
Page 176 - Course of Time,' at the litUa bookstore. Two feathers disappeared from the Sunday bonnet of Mrs. Hamilton Bue, and the Misses Smith exchanged, their red ribbons for slate-colored. Still, it was not the habit of the little place to be sombre ; its gayety was never excessive, and hence its serious moods never assumed a penitential character, and soon wore off. In this respect it presented a strong contrast to Mulligansville and Anacreon, both of which communities retained a severe and mournful expression...