... 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,... A History of American Literature Since 1870 - Seite 49von Fred Lewis Pattee - 1915 - 449 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Mark Twain - 1903 - 491 Seiten
...good business in watermelon rinds and seeds ; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the ' ' levee " ; a pile of ' ' skids ' ' on the slope...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 - 1910 - 188 Seiten
...good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight-piles scattered about 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... | |
| Shelley Fisher Fishkin - 2002 - 330 Seiten
...good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the "levee;" a pile of "skids" on the slope of the...wavelets against them; the great Mississippi, the magnificent Mississippi, rolling its mile-wide tide along, shining in the sun. Presently, the scene... | |
| Federal Writers' Project - 1941 - 762 Seiten
...good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the 'levee'; a pile of 'skids' on the slope of the...fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them. . . ." Presently, dark smoke would appear above one of the remote river points, and "instantly a Negro... | |
| Henry Louis Mencken - 1926 - 926 Seiten
...good business in watermelon rinds and seeds; two or three lonely little freight piles scattered about the levee; a pile of skids on the slope of the stonepaved wnarf, and the fragrant town drunkard asleep in the shadow of them; two or three woodflats at the head... | |
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