 ... the agglomerate rags that stuffed holes in decaying roofs or hung nakedly on human frames, the small, choked dwellings, bursting open at doors and windows with black, round-eyed babies as an overripe melon bursts with seeds, the children playing marbles...  Lady Baltimore - Էջ 177Owen Wister - 1906 - 406 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Malcolm Bell, Jr. - 2004 - 701 էջ
...in the room, the grandparents smoking pipes on the porch, and the great-grandparents upstairs ga2ing out at you like creatures from the Old Testament or...stolen them together, long ago, to be slaves, not to be citi2ens, and now here they were, the fruits of our theft; and for some reason (possibly the Teuton... | |
 | Malcolm Bell, Jr. - 2004 - 701 էջ
...picture that these places offered, tropic, squalid, and fecund, often caused me to walk through them and watch the basking population; the intricate, broken...Exodus came into my head: "For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children."17 In another passage the Northerner... | |
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