Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate's poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by co...mpulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill, And fighting was not his trade;... But his rusty pike's in the cabin still, With Hessian blood on the blade."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Examples are cited by soldiers, of men who have seen the cannon pointed, and the fire given to it, and who have stepped aside from... he path of the ball. The terrors of the storm are chiefly confined to the parlour and the cabin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The principal saloon was the Howlin' Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where ...so many fights broke out that the common saying was, "We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Called on one occasion to a homestead cabin whose occupant had been found frozen to death, Coroner Harvey opened the door, glanced... in, and instantly pronounced his verdict, "Deader 'n hell!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the afternoon I climbed up a ladder--he as a cheap cabin in the... country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today--in next week tomorrow!... Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped--always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop- poop! O my! O my!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eventual shapes of all our formless prayers, This dark, this cabin of loose imaginings,... Wind, lake, lip, everything awaits The slow unloosening of her underthings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can ...let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »