This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... song to song , getting the people ready for the praying and preaching , stirring them up to the revival feel- ing . It would not be a revival till the people danced and shouted all over the arbor , or fell in trances in the sawdust . I ...
... song to song , getting the people ready for the praying and preaching , stirring them up to the revival feel- ing . It would not be a revival till the people danced and shouted all over the arbor , or fell in trances in the sawdust . I ...
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... song . She played the Do chord and then started the words of the first verse of " When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There . " We sang with her , but Brother Cummings did not . He sat with his head bowed , his beard covering his ...
... song . She played the Do chord and then started the words of the first verse of " When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There . " We sang with her , but Brother Cummings did not . He sat with his head bowed , his beard covering his ...
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... song unended when the words were over . I could already hear her singing : When battle round the warlike band With ... song before you go , " she said . " I'd feel a heap better if you sung a church song . " This time my mother let ...
... song unended when the words were over . I could already hear her singing : When battle round the warlike band With ... song before you go , " she said . " I'd feel a heap better if you sung a church song . " This time my mother let ...
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