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sunshine, the trees of Central park, opposite our door, for a background, a baby boy in his arms, his white

Rushing through intervening doors and passages, I found Walt Whitman standing ashy white, and the huge

It illuminated a large and well rounded head sprinkled with snow white hair; eyebrows high and arching

mustache that conceals the upper lip is silvery and the beard that falls to his broad breast has the white

Brooklyn there must be a Plymouth Church, and a distinguished though somewhat doubtful clergyman, and a white-souled

As he passed the window a white-haired, pleasant-faced old gentleman looked out of it; and the face looked

It was as white as snow, and gave the poet the appearance of one of the old patriarchs in the Bible.

His long, snow-white hair flows down and mingles with his fleecy beard, giving him a venerable expression

Orwitz, of Baltimore, Professor Gross's daughter, William Henry Rawle, F.

Tipping back in his chair in an easy manner, while he pushed his white locks back from his brow, the

transparent haze of the warm after- afternoon noon sun; The aspiring lilac bushes with profuse purple or white

Indeed, his face seems almost ruddy in contrast with the snowy whiteness of his hair and beard.

Williams— It has become almost fashion to say that Walt Whitman lacks form, and that his method of expressing

Spring; Benjamin Doty, of same place; in West Hills, Lemuel Carll, John Chichester, Miss Jane Rome, William

spot near the Market Street Ferry, where he can see the boats coming in and enjoy the sight of the white

Francis Howard Williams of Germantown wrote me the other day something that pleased me very much.

He wears a great cape overcoat of soft gray cloth, which falls below the knees, and a broad-brimmed white

felt hat almost as wide as the strong shoulders, over w hich a wild growth of white hair and beard blown

Reclining in his easy chair, arrayed in loose-fitting trousers of some plain gray goods and a spotless white

The poet's sleeves were rolled above the elbows, exposing a pair of arms white as a woman's, but symmetrical

His long white hair and full white beard and mustache, which entirely shaded his lips, and his heavy

white eyebrows, characteristic of a man of magnetism, set off his massive face and gave him a look of

He is William Duckett. In an hour Mr.

White. He is an architect and the son of Richard Grant White. Then Mr.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

William White (New York: New York University Press, 1978), 2:417–421;.

himself many details of the sick room—the ashen face against the pillow, the wasted hand, the long white

The cold, white mantel is massed with photographs. Faces of friends, evidently.

The woodwork is sombre white, and the paint is cracked badly in many places and is peeling off.

It was marked with a white tidy. Then more heaps of papers.

White curtains were drawn part way down.

vis-à-vis the ample figure of the poet clad in light gray linen, his wide rolling shirt collar and long white

most novel and interesting long article in the number is Mrs Talbot's felicitous translation of Dr William

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly, human, With your woolly-white and turbaned head, and bare

His ruddy features were almost concealed by his white hair and beard.

among a very few, and was only beginning to make its way into England, chiefly owing to the help of William

heavy-lidded firm blue eyes, which had a steadfast and dreamy regard; a short thick grey beard almost white

He realized one's ideal of the Old Man of the Seat—long, white beard, "breaking in venerable flood upon

his breast," unkempt locks as white as snow tumbling over ear and temple, and half-dimmed, mild eyes

The writers in their white aprons flitted about on the edge of the listening group like semi-ghosts.

It's so sort of cold, so white. I don't like it." Walt nodded his head slowly.

looked a moment at the blaze of the great wood fire, ran his forefinger and left through the heavy white

A face somewhat lightened by a mild gray eye, but made forbidding, with a suit of pure white hair which

wanders as a familiar figure through the streets of Camden, where he is respected, wearing a gray or white

Clemens (Mark Twain), Charles Dudley Warner, John Boyle O'Reilly, William J.

Elkins, Charles Emory Smith, Talcott Williams, of Philadelphia; William D.

Stuart, William W. Justice, John Harker, of Exina, Canada, and R. M. Buck, M. D., and Dr.

We are glad to find the old poet in good health, and although his hair is white his heart seems to be

Shipley, William M. Singerly and L. Clark Davis.

The half light from the window fell upon his brown face and long white beard, and flowing white hair,

empty, and the frame of which has lacked the picturesque, kindly face, with its background of flowing white

Walt Whitman is a man well advanced in years and his snow-white hair and the long white beard which grows

He had on a short black tailor jacket—no vest, wide turn-over collar, white shirt, broad sailor black

Long white hair, long white beard and mustache, a florid face, with blue eyes alive with fire, a gigantic

His old white hat lies on a chair.

Francis Howard Williams, of this city, in words of eloquence, treated "The Past and Present."

Throughout the speech-making Poet Whitman reclined in his easy chair sniffing at a big white rose, and

The famous white hat sat on the top of his thick snowy hair, and the flickering gaslights played in unromantic

Whitman sadly, that William D. O'Connor of the Treasury Department is dead?

It's like beauty; like a handsome person; I've seen 'em them : Negroes, Indians, white, yellow, men,

women, children, babies, short, tall, well, sick, long-haired, short-haired, white-haired, red-haired

Long white hair, open shirt, broad white hat lying around. Genial manner. "My friend."

always dragging somewhat his paralysed leg—at first sight quite an old man with long grey, almost white

"White Horse", or Kirkwood, was the third of fourth station from Camden on the Camden and Atlantic line

Philadelphia on those warm evenings) sitting out on the doorsteps—Whitman in the midst, in an armchair, his white

From time to time sanguinary collisions between blacks and whites occur, and the diminishing number of

the sons of Ham are seriously multiplying in the South, where in some districts they quite swamp the white

Nor have we anywhere in England a Town Hall nearly as magnificent as the huge pile of white marble, reared

Girard College is another magnificent building of white marble, in the Corinthian style, imitating the

The only things that stood out vividly were the white pillow, and the placid face encircled with snowy

This, with its white wolfskin, surmounted the pile like a throne.

at the door of our room—which served both as dining and sitting room—was answered by my husband, William

The landlord was consulted, the room could be rented, and on the return of Walt and William from the

It was soon after that Whitman's old friend, William Swanton, who was war correspondent for one of the

Even so remote and unheard-of a subject as the white beard of Secretary Welles—then Secretary of the

William Henry Channing was living. They had often asked us to bring Whitman, and he and Mr.

. * * * I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world, A white-haired shadow, roaming

Stevens street, near Fifth) is a still, Philadelphia-looking quarter, of long rows of brick houses with white

marble door-steps and white wooden shutters, in one of which, at a street corner, Whitman has taken

The poet now dresses in gray clothes, matching well with his hair and beard, and wears a white scarf

Who are you, dusky woman, so ancient, hardly human, With your wholly-white and turban'd turbaned head

As an orator Vallandigham is the superior, having a fine complexion, large mouth and jaws, white laughing

He is feeling away for that giant steadily, walking in the White House Grounds under the tress, searching

back with feelings of reverence and respect for the destiny which threw him in contact with the good white-haired

His hair and beard, both of which were white as the driven snow and of great length, blended beautifully

His beard and hair were snow-white, his complexion a fine colour, and unwrinkled.

He was dressed always in a complete suit of grey clothes with a large and spotless white linen collar

, his flowing white beard filling in the gap at his strong sunburnt throat.

twinkle of amusement in his blue eyes, their blueness intensified by their overhanging, bushy, snow-white

year of which I write he stayed at Timber Creek, and dilated on these pleasures:— "The birds at the White

afternoon, just come in from his drive—a rather infirm but fine-looking old man, with a long, venerable white

"I have sometimes felt a little vexed that the good William should have failed to see anything in the

on his way without coat, vest, or suspenders, distinguished from afar by the glimpse of a spotless white

I went to him once with William M. Salter.

He likes William Legget's formula, that "the world is governed too much."

Harned, Francis Howard Williams, Horace L. Traubel, Harrison S. Morris, Talcott Williams, John H.

Mitchell, William Reeder, Daniel Gongaker, Geoffrey Buckwalter, William Ingram, Carl Edelheim, G.W.

Williams ( F.

Williams .— Mr.

—Talcott Williams—Williams! Whitman .— Get up, Talcott—show yourself!

I see he is above the average height, that his hair and beard are long and white as snow, and afterward

body in the style of garments which poets affect, and his expanse of shirt bosom, fastened with a white

Long white hair, a long white beard and moustache, a florid face with spirited blue eyes, a gigantic

On a distant sofa lay the broad-brimmed white hat which he has worn for nearly a quarter of a century

His hair is long and like his whiskers is of snowy whiteness.

His white shirt was cut in true sailor style, opening low down upon his breast, and with the collar rolled

The whole dress with the white flowing hair and whiskers were suggestive of a nature that one is afterwards

and thus it was that when James Harlan turned him out of the Interior Department, years ago, young William

The half light from the window fell upon his long, white hair and his grizzled white beard and brown,

His great head seen almost in profile, with its lofty and rounded dome, his long white hair and beard

O'Connor—the widow of Whitman's brilliant friends William O'Connor—had also been spending a few days