 | Freeman Hunt - 1836 - 232 halaman
...one door young matrons, at another the elders of the people, at a third the youths and maidens gayly chatting or singing together, while the children played...prodigious quantities ; beyond, rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted pines, or dwarf oaks. Yet in this comparatively barren tract,... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1846 - 310 halaman
...night ; and after being milked in the morning, they went off in slow and regular procession to the pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile...hills, on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor in prodigious quantities ; beyond, rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1846 - 470 halaman
...two or three slaves, (the number usually owned by families severally,) and also for the use of the horses, pigs and poultry. Their flour and other grain they purchased from country farmers. Then slavery was of the mildest form — their slaves were really happy. They seemed... | |
 | Joel Munsell - 1850 - 330 halaman
...the night; and after being milked in the morning, they \vent ofFin slow and regular procession to the pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile...hills, on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor, in prodigious quantities; beyond, rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1876 - 350 halaman
...night ; and, after being milked in the morning, they went off in slow and regular procession to the pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile...hills, on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor, in prodigious quantities ; beyond, rise heights of a poor, hungry soil, thinly covered with... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1898 - 254 halaman
...the night ; and after being milked in the morning they went off in slow and regular procession to the pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile...hills, on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor, in prodigious quantities ; beyond rose heights of a poor, hungry soil, thinly covered with... | |
 | John Fiske - 1899 - 444 halaman
...frugal supper, which they generally ate sitting on the steps in the open air. . . . " At the further end of the town was a fertile plain along the river,...prodigious quantities ; beyond rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted . , , IT . , . Picturesque pines, or dwarf oak. Yet in this... | |
 | John Fiske - 1900 - 450 halaman
...frugal supper, which they generally ate sitting on the steps in the open air. . . . " At the further end of the town was a fertile plain along the river,...prodigious quantities ; beyond rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted • ii -v' • • Picturesque pines, or dwarf oak. Yet in... | |
 | Anne MacVicar Grant - 1901 - 360 halaman
...grazed together. A neverfailing instinct guided each home to her master's door in the evening, there being treated with a few vegetables and a little salt,...hills, on which grew bilberries of uncommon size and flavor in prodigious quantities; beyond rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 528 halaman
...frugal supper, which they generally ate sitting on the steps in the open air. ... " At the further end of the town was a fertile plain along the river,...prodigious quantities; beyond rise heights of a poor hungry soil, thinly covered with stunted pines, or picturesque dwarf oak. Yet in this comparatively... | |
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... pasture. At the other end of the town was a fertile plain along the river, three miles in length, and near a mile broad. This was all divided into lots, where every inhabitant raised Indian corn, sufficient for the food of two or three slaves, (the... 
