 The cart was halted before the enclosure; and rejecting the offers of assistance with the same air of simple self-reliance he had displayed throughout, Tennessee's Partner lifted the rough coffin on his back, and deposited it, unaided, within the shallow...  The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches - Stran 69avtor: Bret Harte - 1871 - 256 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Francis Bret Harte - 1872 - 442 strani
...not have been a cheerful place. The unpicturesque site, the rude and unlovely outlines, the unsavoury details, which distinguish the nest-building of the...Partner, slowly, " has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do ? Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to go home,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 strani
...where the broken soil, about an open grave, is mistaken • for a recent attempt at cultivation — " The cart was halted before the enclosure ; 'and rejecting...Partner, slowly, ' has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do ! Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to go home,... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 strani
...place where the broken soil, about an open grave, is mistaken for a recent attempt at cultivation — " The cart was halted before the enclosure ; and rejecting...; and they disposed themselves variously on stumps ami boulders, and sat expectant. " ' When a man,' began Tennessee's Partner, slowly, ' has been running... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 strani
...face with his handkerchief. This the crowd felt was a preliminary to speech ; and PIONEER IDYLLS. 443 they disposed themselves variously on stumps and boulders,...Partner, slowly, ' has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do ! Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to go home,... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1882 - 434 strani
...handkerchief. This the erowd felt was a preliminary to Speech, and they disposed themselves variuubly on stumps and boulders, and sat expectant. " When...Tennessee's Partner slowly, " has been running free all day, what's the natural lhing for him to do? Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to go home,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 strani
...outskirts of Sandy Bar were reached, and the solitary cabin of Tennessee's Partner. 1861-88] [1861-88 see's Partner's matrimonial felicity, had been used as a...and they disposed themselves variously on stumps and bowlders, and sat expectant. " When a man," began Tennessee's Partner, slowly, " has been running free... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1893 - 148 strani
...outriders, until the outskirts of Sandy Bar were reached, and the solitary cabin of Tennessee's Partner. A few paces from the cabin there was a rough enclosure,...Tennessee's Partner slowly, " has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do ? Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to come... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 462 strani
...had been used as a garden, but was now overgrown with fern. As we approached it, we were eurprised to find that what we had taken for a recent attempt...Tennessee's Partner, slowly, "has been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do? Why, to come home. And if he ain't in a condition to go home,... | |
 | Robert Ford - 1897 - 340 strani
...his hat, and slowly mopped his face with his handkerchief. This, the crowd felt, was preliminary to a speech, and they disposed themselves variously on...expectant. " When a man," began Tennessee's partner slowly, " when a man has been running free all day, what's the nat'ral thing for him to do? Why, to come home.... | |
 | Bret Harte - 1900 - 430 strani
...not have been a cheerful place. The unpicturesque site, the rude and unlovely outlines, the unsavoury details, which distinguish the nest-building of the...expectant. " When a man," began Tennessee's Partner slowly, " hast been running free all day, what's the natural thing for him to do ? Why, to come home. And if... | |
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