 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
 | Benjamin Rush - Psychology - 1981 - 770 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; in which they continued to employ themselves the great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore;... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey Professor of History Northwestern University - History - 1987 - 442 pages
...benefactress . . . called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton; in which they continued to employ themselves [the] great part of the night." See Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa (New York:... | |
 | Edward Wilmot Blyden - Religion - 1993 - 460 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on mo all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves a great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore,... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey - Art - 1994 - 314 pages
...benefactress . . . called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton; in which they continued to employ themselves [the] great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was completely extempore;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 876 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... | |
 | Mungo Park, James Rennell - History - 2000 - 420 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; in which they continued to employ themselves a great t part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore;... | |
 | Tim Fulford, Debbie Lee, Peter J. Kitson - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 354 pages
...female part of her family' laid him down to sleep whilst they spun cotton. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore: for I was myself the subject of it ... The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these: 'The winds roared,... | |
 | Poetry - 1870 - 264 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... | |
 | Abigail Mott - African Americans - 1839 - 420 pages
...apprehension1) 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 ; in which they continued to employ themselves a great part of the night. 7. " They lightened their labor by songsr one ot which was composed extempore... | |
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