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William White, 3 vols. (New York: New York University Press, 1978).
MWJ Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, ed.
Let the white person tread the black person under his heel! (Say!
William L. Andrews (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 129. 10.
William White. 3 vols. New York: New York University Press, 1978. Bibliography 255 ———.
been stricken with paralysis: he appears "at first sight quite an old man, with long grey, almost white
England in their integrity, and not only in the necessarily anaesthetized anthology provided in 1868 by William
another office, thanks to the intervention of friends, especially the writer and fellow civil servant William
tapping (with impeccably sassy aplomb) from a very high Old World source indeed, nothing less than William
William Thayer and Charles Eldridge were enterprising young men, eager to qualify themselves on the conservative