 gentlemen," running on without a person speaking, "perhaps you have been to New Orleans often; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in a crow's life. I am thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact. Some...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 361850Full view - About this book
 | John William Carleton - 1841 - 528 pages
...on without a person speaking, " prehaps, you have been to New Orleans often ; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in...that ar a fact. Some of the gentlemen thar called me green—well, prehaps I am, said I, but I arn't so at home ; and if I aint off my trail much, the heads... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1850 - 688 pages
...on without any person speaking, " prehaps you have been to New Orleans often; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in...hardest; for according to my notion, they were real knownolhings, green as a pumpkin-vine—couldn't, in farming, I '11 bet, raise a crop of turnips :... | |
 | Thomas Bangs Thorpe - History - 1854 - 344 pages
...without a person interrupting, " prehaps you Lave been to New Orleans often ; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in a crow's life. I ain thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact. Some of the gentlemen thar called me... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Humor - 1992 - 296 pages
...evidence of the elegiac theme, for Doggett himself tells of his necessary demise in urban America: "I am thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact" (p. 43b2). Walter Blair has pointed out that Thorpe "set off various worlds involved in the story by... | |
 | John Caldwell Guilds - Fiction - 1999 - 642 pages
...on without a person interrupting, "prehaps you have been to New Orleans often; I never made the fast visit before, and I don't intend to make another in...ar place, and useless, that ar a fact. Some of the gendemen thar called me green — well, perhaps I am, said I, but I am't so at home; and if I aint... | |
 | M. Thomas Inge - Humor - 364 pages
...group of men on a steamboat on the Mississippi, "'I never made the first visit before [New Orleans], and I don't intend to make another in a crow's life....away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact'" (337). He is perhaps more critical of city men, telling the group: "'Some of the gendemen thar called... | |
 | Thomas Ruys Smith - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 258 pages
...frontier. Doggett laments, "I am thrown away in that ar place, and useless." The "gentlemen" called him "green": "well, perhaps I am, said I, but I arn't so at home." Thorpe's narrator asks Doggett for a "description of some particular bear hunt"; Doggett agrees. At... | |
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