... skids" on the slope of the stone-paved wharf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them; two or three wood flats at the head of the wharf, but nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them; the great Mississippi,... Travels at Home - Seite 26von Mark Twain - 1910 - 142 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1875 - 782 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in water-melon rinds and seeds; two or throe lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee; " a pile of " skids "...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side; the "point" above... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 478 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee " ; a pile of " skids...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side ; the " point " above... | |
| Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee " ; a pile of " skids...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun ; the dense forest away on the other side ; the " point "... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1902 - 568 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee "; a pile of " skids "...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side; the " point" above... | |
| Mark Twain - 1903 - 504 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee " ; a pile of " skids...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun ; the dense forest away on the other side ; the " point" above... | |
| Mark Twain - 1908 - 504 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the ' ' levee " ; a pile of ' ' skids...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun ; the dense forest away on the other side ; the " point "... | |
| Fred Lewis Pattee - 1915 - 480 Seiten
...business in water-melon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered around the "levee"; a pile of "skids" on the slope of the...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun ; the dense forest away on the other side; the "point" above... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - 1916 - 220 Seiten
...walls, chins on breasts, hats slouched over their faces, asleep, loafing, lonely, asleep in the shadow, nobody to listen to the peaceful lapping of the wavelets against them. the majestic — Mississippi rolling its mileinde tide along, dense forest away on the other side, a very... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 536 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the " levee " ; a pile of " skids...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun ; the dense forest away on the other side ; the " point "... | |
| Mark Twain - 1917 - 550 Seiten
...sidewalk, doing a good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the "levee"; a pile of "skids" on...majestic, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun; the dense forest away on the other side; the "point" above... | |
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