 "Don't say yes'm — say Aunt Sally. Where'd she get aground?" I didn't rightly know what to say, because I didn't know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down. But I go a good deal on instinct; and my instinct said she would be coming...  The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] - Page 285by Mark Twain - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1884 - 496 pages
...last ! We been expecting you a couple of days and more. What's kep' you ? — boat get aground ? " " Don't say yes'm — say Aunt Sally. Where'd she get...Uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lolly Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards.... | |
 | Gizen-No-Teki - 1903 - 278 pages
...us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head." " Good gracious ! Anybody hurt ? " " No ma'am. Killed a nigger." " Well, it's lucky ; because sometimes...last Christmas, your Uncle Silas was coming up from New Orleans on the old " Lally Rook " and she blowed out a cylinder head and crippled a man .... He... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1918 - 432 pages
...and noses stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them 3°4 sailing over fences and around corners from everywheres....nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do 306 get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 436 pages
...and noces stretched up towards me, a-barking and howling; and more a-coming; you could see them 3°4 sailing over fences and around corners from everywheres....nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do 306 get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 440 pages
...We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, jt's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years...uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lolly Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards.... | |
 | James Korges - 1969 - 49 pages
...famous exchange in Chapter XXXII of Huckleberry Finn, when Huck explains to Aunt Sally what happened: " 'We blowed out a cylinder-head.' 'Good gracious! anybody...it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt.' " In one of the recent good novels, Close to Home (1962), a reader is aware of the grotesquery of Native... | |
 | George C. Carrington - 1976 - 232 pages
...motherly character in the book: "We blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" 144 "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt." (Chap. 32) The novel demonstrates the lack of conscience. Huck's irritation with it has a rough relevance,... | |
 | A. Leon Higginbotham - 1980 - 548 pages
...that as late as 1884 many white Americans still failed to perceive blacks as human beings. He writes: "Good gracious. Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger."...it's lucky because sometimes people do get hurt." . . ,12 This book will treat from a legal standpoint this historically persistent failure of perception.... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1982 - 1190 pages
...blowed out a cylinder-head." "Good gracious! anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger." "Well, it's luck}'; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago...uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lolly Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man. And I think he died afterwards.... | |
 | Joel Kovel - 1984 - 368 pages
..."It warn't the grounding— that didn't keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder head." "Good gracious! Anybody hurt?" "No'm. Killed a nigger."...it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt." CHAPTE3R THE SYMBOLIC MATRIX Successful high-grade organisms are only possible, on the condition that... | |
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