 The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...  The Pamphleteer - Page 396edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1816 - 236 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton:...continued to employ themselves great part of the night. 10. " Finding that I was very hungry, she went out to procure me something to eat; and returned in... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...apprehension. Her female domestics, .who had stood gazing on him, in fixed astonishment, she then ordered to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves through the night. They lightened their labor by songs, one at least of which was evidently composed... | |
 | 1819 - 186 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore: for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung... | |
 | African Americans - 1826 - 266 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton;...continued to employ themselves great part of the night. chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these :— " The... | |
 | Adventure and adventurers - 1827 - 226 pages
...the same time to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing at him all the while in great astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves till after midnight. They beguiled the passing moments, and lightened their labour, by songs ; one... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children's poetry - 1831 - 178 pages
...apprehension) called to the'female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...continued to employ themselves great part of. the nig tit. 12. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of •which was composed extempore ; for I... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers, English - 1831 - 182 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton;...they continued to employ themselves great part of the nignt. 12. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1831 - 180 pages
...female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to re$Qme' their task of spinning cotton ; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night. 12. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed ex-tem'po-re ; for I was •... | |
 | James Augustus St. John - Explorers - 1832 - 430 pages
...apprehension, called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton,...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I was myself the subject of it ; it was sung... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - Readers - 1833 - 286 pages
...astonishment, to renew their task of spinning cotton, with which they continued to employ themselves a great part of the night. They lightened their labor...subject of it. It was sung by one of the young women, and the rest joined in a sort of chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally... | |
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