'Way Down East: Or Portraitures of Yankee LifePotter, 1854 - 384 |
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Strona 359 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Strona 367 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Strona 46 - ... to kneel to the prettiest, bow to the wittiest, and kiss the one he loves best before the forfeit is redeemed.
Strona 143 - Jerry Guttridge! you having been found guilty of being an idle and lazy person, and not providing for your family, and giving reproachful language to Mr. Nat. Frier, when he reproved you for your idleness, the court orders that you receive twenty smart lashes with the cat-o'-nine tails upon your naked back, and that this sentence be executed forthwith by the constables, at the whipping-post in the yard adjoining the courthouse.
Strona 30 - And again, Three Removes is as bad as a Fire; and again, Keep thy Shop, and thy Shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your Business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the Plough would thrive. Himself must either hold or drive.
Strona 128 - Guttridge," said his wife, with tears in her eyes, "you and the children ate that fish for yvmr supper last night. I never tasted a morsel of it, and have n't tasted anything but potatoe sthese two dars; and I'm so faint now I can hardly stand/' "Always a-grumblin'," said Jerry; "I can't never come into the house but what I must hear a fuss about something or other. What's this boy snivelling about?
Strona 135 - However, after due consultation, he concluded to go over and have a talk with Mrs Guttridge about the matter. Accordingly, he took his hat and walked over. He found the door open, as usual, and walked in without ceremony. Here he beheld the whole family, including Jerry himself, seated at their little pine table, doing ample justice to the basket of provisions which he had just before sent them. He observed the pie had been cut into two pieces, and one half of it, and he thought rather the largest...
Strona 133 - While Bobby had been eating, Mr Frier had been relating to his family the events which had occurred at Guttridge's house, and the starving condition of the inmates ; and it was at once agreed that something should be sent over immediately ; for they all said Mrs Guttridge was a clever woman, and it was a shame that she should be left to suffer so.
Strona 11 - September 25th, at a town meeting, it was "ordered that a cage be made, or some other means be invented by the Selectmen, to punish such as sleep or take tobacco on the Lord's day, at meeting, in the time of the public exercise." It appears from this record that the town reposed unlimited confidence in the inventive powers of the Selectmen ; and it appears also that the energetic order of the town, passed on this occasion, was a few years afterwards successfully carried into practical operation....
Strona 142 - When the honorable court was ready to hear the case, the clerk called Jerry Guttridge, and bade him hearken to an indictment found against him by the grand inquest for the district of Maine, now sitting at Saco, in the words following ; namely :—" We present Jerry Guttridge for an idle person, and not providing for his family ; and giving reproachful language to Mr.