 | 1896 - 940 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping 'sa terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am." " I have... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Authorship - 1896 - 226 pages
...of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but_.they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an* could see~ outside the -battle for...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. . Shipping's a terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am,?' J "I... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Authors, American - 1924 - 340 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping 'sa terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am." "I have... | |
 | Various - Fiction - 1990 - 276 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am." "I have... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1994 - 340 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am." "I have... | |
 | June Howard - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 144 pages
...They saw the world for themselves, and like's not their wives and children saw it with them. . . . Yes, they lived more dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point of view, ma'am." (p. 20)... | |
 | Sarah Orne Jewett - Fiction - 1997 - 354 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sightseein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...here in Dunnet; they got some sense o' proportion." In the opening of "The Queen's Twin," the narrator echoes Captain Littlepage's assessment: "More than... | |
 | Judith Fetterley, Marjorie Pryse - American literature - 2003 - 440 pages
...best of knowledge to carry with 'em sight-seein', but they were some acquainted with foreign lands an' their laws, an' could see outside the battle for town...dignified, and their houses were better within an' without. Shipping's a terrible loss to this part o' New England from a social point o' view, ma'am. . . . No:... | |
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... could see outside the battle for town clerk here in Dunnet; they got some sense o 