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Rusty black costume; white choker; look oddly compounded of severity, superiority, curiosity, apprehension

Dirty finery, excessively plentiful; paint, both red and white; draggle-tailed dress, ill-fitting; coarse

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

A well-built, portly old man, full, ruddy face, abundant wavy—almost frizzly—white hair, good forehead

It is the firm of William C.

Nicholas Hotel was built in 1853 to rival the luxurious Astor Place with its white marble facade and

Routledge, 1998], 104–105). uniformed in brick-dusty shirts and overalls, battered hats, and shoes white

Pickering, 1835), xxx. did before the Conquerer's Whitman refers to William the Conqueror (1028—1087

Harold II was killed in the quick Norman victory and William was subsequently crowned King of England

Rollo was not completely unconnected to these events, because William I was one of his direct descendants

for example, Wace, Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou (London: William

Winter of 1840, went to white stone, and was there till next spring.— Went to New York in May 1841, and

Edward the Confessor, a Saxon, king.— Harold, son of a nobleman.— His pretensions were opposed by William

, Duke of Normandy.— The crown had been left William by Edward the Confessor.— Pope in favor of William

William entered England, fought Harold, defeated him, and gained the crown.

William the Conqueror 1087 William Rufus, son " 1100 Henry I.

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

sun- set sunset , the river between, Shadows, aureola and mist, light falling on roofs and gables of white

the unearthly cry, Its veins down the neck distend, its eyes roll till they show nothing but their whites

Off the word I have spoken I except not one — red, white, black, all are deific, In each house is the

soiree, I heard what the singers were singing so long, Heard who sprang in crimson youth from the white

She sits in an arm-chair, under the shaded porch of the farm-house, The sun just shines on her old white

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

partitions allowed secreted criminals to rummage through the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White

, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing the Numbers [Harvard University Press, 2010

And it means, Sprouting, alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

Examine these limbs, red, black or white…they are very cunning in tendon and nerve; They shall be stript

William Edmondstoune Aytoun (1813-1865) was an influential Scottish poet famed for his parodies and light

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers.

Then he is "Pleased with primitive tunes of the choir of the white- washed white-washed church," And

The wretched features of ennuyees, the white features of corpses, the livid faces of drunk- ards drunkards

sweet eating and drinking, Laps life-swelling yolks—laps ear of rose-corn, milky and just ripened; The white

and even to his head, he strikes out with courageous arms, he urges himself with his legs, I see his white

his arms with measureless love, and the son holds the father in his arms with measureless love, The white

hair of the mother shines on the white wrist of the daughter, The breath of the boy goes with the breath

How beautiful its clusters of pink and white blossoms are, and how delightfully fragrant!

The squirrel cups vary in color, some being white, others pink, and others still bluish or lilac-colored

, And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones Growing among black folks as among white

notice the arriv- ing arriving ships, Saw their approach, saw aboard those that were near me, Saw the white

serpentine pennants, The large and small steamers in motion, the pi- lots pilots in their pilot-houses, The white

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

beauty of person, 8 The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, the pale yellow and white

swelling and deliciously aching, Limitless limpid jets of love hot and enormous, quivering jelly of love, white-blow

Examine these limbs, red, black, or white—they are so cunning in tendon and nerve, They shall be stript

Bring down those tossed arms and let your white hair be, Here gape your smart grand-sons—their wives

of their churches—I hear the responsive base and soprano, I hear the wail of utter despair of the white

- haired white-haired Irish grand-parents, when they learn the death of their grand-son, I hear the cry

Mediterranean, and from one to another of its islands, The inland fresh-tasted seas of North America, The White

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!

I see not merely that you are polite or white-faced, married, single, citizens of old states, citizens

The sum of all known reverence I add up in you, whoever you are, The President is there in the White

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, Did you think it was in the white or gray

bars of pig-iron, the strong clean-shaped T rail for rail- roads railroads , Oil-works, silk-works, white-lead-works

those of the grape, Welcome are lands of sugar and rice, Welcome the cotton-lands—welcome those of the white

forming in line, the echoed rise and fall of the arms forcing the water, The slender, spasmic blue-white

murderer with haggard face and pinioned arms, The sheriff at hand with his deputies, the silent and white-lipped

the old response, Take what I have then, (saying fain,) take the pay you approached for, Take the white

Remember what was promulged by the founders, ratified by The States, signed in black and white by the

side through the night, and withdraws at the peep of the day, And leaves for me baskets covered with white

And it means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colorless beards of

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes

Painless after all I lie, exhausted but not so un- happy unhappy , White and beautiful are the faces

deliberately on, horse and foot, light infantry, hussars, dragoons, riflemen, Highlanders (with ridiculously white

Discontinue all the "sound and fury, signifying nothing," William Shakespeare, Macbeth , Act V, Scene

shirt collar flat and broad, countenance of swarthy transparent red, beard short and well mottled with white

And it means, sprouting alike in broad zones and narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

The young men float on their backs, their white bellies bulge to the sun, they do not ask who seizes

you white or black owners of slaves! You owned persons dropping sweat-drops or blood-drops!

pass up or down, white-sailed schooners, sloops, lighters! Flaunt away, flags of all nations!

The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

fruitstand . . . . . . the beef on the butcher's stall, The bread and cakes in the bakery . . . . . . the white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy

Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!

neck open, shirt-collar flat and broad, countenance tawny transparent red, beard well-mottled with white

the western persimmon . . . over the long-leaved corn and the delicate blue flowered flax; Over the white

means, Sprouting alike in broad zones and nar- row narrow zones, Growing among black folks as among white

calmness and beauty of person; The shape of his head, the richness and breadth of his manners, yellow and white

I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun; I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it

only in the circle of themselves, modest and pretty, desperately scratching for rhymes, pallid with white

worlds and new, who accept evil as well as good, ignorance as well as erudition, black as soon as white

The attribution of this review to William Rounseville Alger is indebted to Gary Scharnhorst's article

being, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, to command," Whitman quotes, albeit with some alteration, William

See George Searle Phillips, Memoirs of William Wordsworth (London: Partridge and Oakey, 1852), 197–8.

of the miserable chattels, lamenting their savage homes, and wondering to each other whither their white

wild-pigeon, high-hold, orchard- oriole orchard-oriole , coot, surf-duck, red-shouldered-hawk, fish-hawk, white-ibis

White and beautiful are the faces around me…the heads are bared of their fire-caps.