 | Daniel Charles O'Connor - 1913 - 522 pages
...plaintive: and the words, literally translated were these: "The winds roared and the rain fell, when the poor white man, faint and weary, came, and sat under our tree." THE PERIOD.—RULE I.—When a sentence is complete in itself, and is neither connected in construction... | |
 | Vaquero (pseud.) - 1914 - 396 pages
...chorus. The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these : — " ' The winds roared, and the rains fell, The poor white...bring him milk, no wife to grind his corn. (Chorus) Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he.' " Troplc JATvlAT CA JBB WEST INDIES AND CENTRAL AMERICA... | |
 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 360 pages
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man ; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | Blair Niles - 1926 - 364 pages
...subject of their song whose air was sweetly plaintive. "The winds," they sang, "roar, and the rains fall. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat...mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. Let us pity the white man; no mother has he to bring him milk; no wife . . ." And so, Vastey argued,... | |
 | Vernon Loggins - 1931 - 504 pages
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The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn. 
