O Pioneers!Houghton Mifflin, 1913 - 306 pages |
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... . Then she stopped short and stooped down to wipe his wet face . " Why , Emil ! I told you to stay in the store and not to come out . What is the matter with you ? " " My kitten , sister , my kitten ! A 6 O PIONEERS !
... . Then she stopped short and stooped down to wipe his wet face . " Why , Emil ! I told you to stay in the store and not to come out . What is the matter with you ? " " My kitten , sister , my kitten ! A 6 O PIONEERS !
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... told her that she must choose one of them for a sweetheart , and each began pressing his suit and offering her bribes ; candy , and little pigs , and spotted calves . She looked archly into the big , brown , mustached faces , smelling ...
... told her that she must choose one of them for a sweetheart , and each began pressing his suit and offering her bribes ; candy , and little pigs , and spotted calves . She looked archly into the big , brown , mustached faces , smelling ...
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... told himself , he had not been mistaken in them . The square head and heavy shoulders belonged to Oscar , the elder . The younger boy was quicker , but vacillating . " Boys , " said the father wearily , " I want you to keep the land ...
... told himself , he had not been mistaken in them . The square head and heavy shoulders belonged to Oscar , the elder . The younger boy was quicker , but vacillating . " Boys , " said the father wearily , " I want you to keep the land ...
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... told each other that the country was never meant for men to live in ; the thing to do was to get back to Iowa , to Illinois , to any place that had been proved habitable . The Bergson boys , certainly , would have been happier with ...
... told each other that the country was never meant for men to live in ; the thing to do was to get back to Iowa , to Illinois , to any place that had been proved habitable . The Bergson boys , certainly , would have been happier with ...
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... told me that he was going to let Fuller take his land and stuff for four hundred dollars and a ticket to Chicago . " " There's Fuller again ! " Alexandra ex- claimed . " I wish that man would take me for a partner . He's feathering his ...
... told me that he was going to let Fuller take his land and stuff for four hundred dollars and a ticket to Chicago . " " There's Fuller again ! " Alexandra ex- claimed . " I wish that man would take me for a partner . He's feathering his ...
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Page 32 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, And herb for the service of man : That he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Page 32 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the field : the wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 16 - Now, when he had at last struggled out of debt, he was going to die himself. He was only forty-six, and had, of course, counted upon more time. Bergson had spent his first five years on the Divide getting into debt, and the last six getting out. He had paid off his mortgages and had ended pretty much where he began, with the land. He owned exactly six hundred and forty acres of what stretched outside his door; his own original homestead and timber claim, making three hundred and twenty acres, and...
Page 42 - A pioneer . . . should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves," Miss Gather says; disaster comes when an idea becomes an actuality.
Page 113 - There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Page 71 - It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back. Like the plains of Lombardy, it seems to rise a little to meet the sun. The air and the earth are curiously mated and intermingled, as if the one were the breath of the other.
Page 86 - Ivar pulled a red handkerchief out of the breast of his blouse and wiped his eyes and beard. "But I should not wish you to keep me if, as they say, it is against your interests, and if it is hard for you to get hands because I am here." Alexandra made an impatient gesture, but the old man put out his hand and went on earnestly: — "Listen, mistress, it is right that you should take these things into account. You know that my spells come from God, and that I would not harm any living creature. You...
Page 77 - On either side of the road, for a mile before you reached the foot of the hill, stood tall osage orange hedges, their glossy green marking off the yellow fields. South of the hill, in a low, sheltered swale, surrounded by a mulberry hedge, was the orchard, its fruit trees knee-deep in timothy grass.
Page 59 - For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning.