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The keel-boatmen were great sticklers for "fair-play," and would permit of no interference with either
never told them a word, Lived the same life with the rest, the same old laughing, gnawing, sleeping, Played
play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!
ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow- drawn slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays
novels Ruth Hall (1855) and Rose Clark (1856), as well as her collection of stories for children The Play-Day
or not he is considered among his friends to be of a sane mind,—whether he is in earnest, or only playing
cuts, First-rate to ride, to fight, to hit the bull's-eye, to sail a skiff, to sing a song, or to play
for his picture would answer equally well for a "Bowery boy," one of the "killers," "Mose" in the play
Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play
Philosopher (1762), the poem The Deserted Village (1770), the novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), and the play
I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
What play of Shakespeare represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones
What play of Shakspeare, represented in America, is not an insult to America, to the marrow in its bones
loosed to the eddies of the wind, A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms, The play
stand open and ready, The dried grass of the harvest-time loads the slow-drawn wagon, The clear light plays
From the cinder-strewed threshold I follow their movements, The lithe sheer of their waists plays even
I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
colored lights, The steam-whistle, the solid roll of the train of approaching cars, The slow-march played
Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!
The most renowned poems would be ashes, ora- tions orations and plays would be vacuums.
under-hold, the hair rumpled over and blinding the eyes; The march of firemen in their own costumes, the play
what was expected of heaven or feared of hell, are now consumed, Mad filaments, ungovernable shoots play
some playing, some slum- bering slumbering ? Who are the girls? Who are the married women?
the praise of things, In the dispute on God and eternity he is silent, He sees eternity less like a play
I love to look on the stars and stripes, I hope the fifes will play Yankee Doodle.
I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!
At the hinder lower corner of each saddlecloth is a gay, red tassel, which swings to and fro, and plays
The great fountain is playing, and round it is a ring of pleased faces of old and young, watching the
inheritance of the English language—all the rich repertoire of traditions, poems, historics, metaphysics, plays
I play not a march for victors only, I play great marches for conquered and slain persons.
play the part that looks back on the actor or actress!
Play the old role, the role that is great or small, according as one makes it!
I am a dance—Play up, there! the fit is whirling me fast!
Let priests still play at immortality! Let death be inaugurated!
Every move of him has the free play of the muscle of one who never knew what it was to feel that he stood
limitless—in vain I try to think how limitless; I do not doubt that the orbs, and the systems of orbs, play
his own part, witty, sensitive to a slight, ready with life or death for a friend, fond of women, played
cherished for them- selves themselves , They fill their hour, the dancers dance, the musi- cians musicians play
The chief traps for these good folks are the mock auction shops, or "Peter Funk" establishments.
"Peter Funk" was a popular term for a decoy purchaser who falsely bid up prices on a product in partnership
See Louise Pound, "'Peter Funk': The Pedigree of a Westernism," American Speech 4.3 (February 1929),
the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing
the client's clothes while he slept" (Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White, Playing