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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... stand the coffin up to make it . " The coffin was at an angle , so that the girl in it seemed half standing up . Her round white face was only a shade darker than the white coffin lining . Her dark eyebrows and lashes seemed dead black ...
... stand the coffin up to make it . " The coffin was at an angle , so that the girl in it seemed half standing up . Her round white face was only a shade darker than the white coffin lining . Her dark eyebrows and lashes seemed dead black ...
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... stand to sing it tonight . I'd be bound to falter . " There were other songs sung , and then talk of going home ... standing . Those standing close enough to see sang the verse through with my mother and by the last line they were ...
... stand to sing it tonight . I'd be bound to falter . " There were other songs sung , and then talk of going home ... standing . Those standing close enough to see sang the verse through with my mother and by the last line they were ...
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... stand too close . It'll hurt if you stand too close . " I stood back a little , on the other side from her chair . She was older than my mother , thin , and wrapped in quilts - sickly looking but friendly . The man sat beside her . On ...
... stand too close . It'll hurt if you stand too close . " I stood back a little , on the other side from her chair . She was older than my mother , thin , and wrapped in quilts - sickly looking but friendly . The man sat beside her . On ...
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