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Neale, Narrative of the Mutiny at Nore (London: William Tegg, 1861).
toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white
toast, Mabbott (p. 122) remarks that Pelham (and sundry sources) state that Parker drank a glass of white
At the word, the white vestments wherewith they had bound S HIRVAL began to move.
His limbs felt the wondrous impulse—he rose, and stood up among them, wrapped in his shroud and the white
On the verso Whitman has copied two stanzas of English poet William Collins' The Passions.
We took our seats round the same clean, white table, and received our favorite beverage in the same bright
placid face, and the same untrembling fingers—him that seventh day saw a clay-cold corpse, shrouded in white
been at some doubt whether to class this strange and hideous creature with the race of Red Men or White—for
I had heard that the white man knew a hundred remedies for ills, of which we were ignorant—ignorant both
"The path," said the new comer, "will be dark, and the white man's taunts hot, for the last hour of a
We will laugh in the very faces of the whites!" A RROW -T IP smiled, quietly.
Tell them of the customs of these white people—our own are the same—which require of him who destroys
Austen, Wilmerding and Co., auctioneers, were located at 30 Exchange Street, corner of William."
turned by melo-dramas and the J ACK S HEPPARD Jack Sheppard was a popular nineteenth-century novel by William
HREE hundred years ago—so heard I the tale, not long since, from the mouth of one educated like a white