| | 202 | Author: | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Men in the Storm  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | AT about three o'clock of the February afternoon, the blizzard
began to swirl great clouds of snow along the streets, sweeping it
down from the roofs and up from the pavements until the faces of
pedestrians tingled and burned as from a thousand needle-prickings.
Those on the walks huddled their necks closely in the collars of
their coats and went along stooping like a race of aged people.
The drivers of vehicles hurried their horses furiously on their
way. They were made more cruel by the exposure of their positions,
aloft on high seats. The street cars, bound up-town, went slowly,
the horses slipping and straining in the spongy brown mass that lay
between the rails. The drivers, muffled to the eyes, stood erect
and facing the wind, models of grim philosophy. Overhead the
trains rumbled and roared, and the dark structure of the elevated
railroad, stretching over the avenue, dripped little streams and
drops of water upon the mud and snow beneath it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 203 | Author: | Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Veteran | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OUT of the low window could be seen three hickory trees placed
irregularly in a meadow that was resplendent in spring-time green.
Farther away, the old dismal belfry of the village church loomed
over the pines. A horse meditating in the shade of one of the
hickories lazily swished his tail. The warm sunshine made an
oblong of vivid yellow on the floor of the grocery. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 204 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Anne | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was a strange thing, the like of which had never before happened
to Anne. In her matter-of-fact, orderly life mysterious
impressions were rare. She tried to account for it afterward by
remembering that she had fallen asleep out-of-doors. And out-of-doors, where there is the hot sun and the sea and the teeming earth
and tireless winds, there are perhaps great forces at work, both
good and evil, mighty creatures of God going to and fro, who do not
enter into the strong little boxes in which we cage ourselves. One
of these, it may be, had made her its sport for the time. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 205 | Author: | Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Ignoble Martyr | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OLD Aaron Pettit, who had tried to live for ten years with half of
his body dead from paralysis, had given up at last. He was
altogether dead now, and laid away out of sight in the three-cornered lot where the Pettits had been buried since colonial days.
The graveyard was a triangle cut out of the wheat field by a
certain Osee Pettit in 1695. Many a time had Aaron, while
ploughing, stopped to lean over the fence and calculate how many
bushels of grain the land thus given up to the dead men would have
yielded. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 207 | Author: | Dawes, Henry L. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Indian Territory." | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN order to understand the purpose for which the Commission to the
Five Civilized Tribes was created, and the present condition of
their work, it will be necessary to refresh our memories as to the
conditions which caused its appointment. So much of the past of
these tribes as is essential for this purpose is briefly this.
These tribes are the Cherokees, the Choctaws, the Chickasaws, the
Creeks, and the Seminoles, numbering about 64,000 at the last
census. Seventy years ago they were living on their own lands in
Georgia, North Carolina and Mississippi, and to induce them to
surrender these lands to the white men of the States where they
were situated, the United States gave them in exchange the Indian
Territory. In the treaties made with them we conveyed the title to
the lands directly to the tribes for the use of the people of the
tribes to hold as long as they maintained their tribal
organizations and occupied them. This stipulation prevented their
parting with them without the consent of the United States. We
stipulated in these treaties that they should have the right to
establish their own governments without our interference, such
governments as they pleased, not in conflict with the constitution
of the United States. We also covenanted with them that we would
keep all the white people out of their territory. Having thus set
them up for themselves in a territory far west of any of the
States, beyond all further trouble, as it was thought, we left them
to do as they pleased for forty years. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 208 | Author: | Dodge, David | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Free Negroes of North Carolina" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | According to the census of 1860, there were in the United States,
in round numbers, 487,000 free negroes, of which the fifteen slave-holding States contained 251,000. Virginia stood first, with
58,000; North Carolina second, with 30,000; and in the seven States
south of these, in which the most rigorous free-negro laws
prevailed, there were a total of less than 40,000. In Virginia
they formed 10.60 per cent. of the negro population, in North
Carolina 8.42 per cent., and in the other seven States alluded to
considerably less than two per cent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 209 | Author: | Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Color Line" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Few evils are less accessible to the force of reason, or more
tenacious of life and power, than a long-standing prejudice. It is
a moral disorder, which creates the conditions necessary to its own
existence, and fortifies itself by refusing all contradiction. It
paints a hateful picture according to its own diseased imagination,
and distorts the features of the fancied original to suit the
portrait. As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can
easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in
those we despise and hate. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 213 | Author: | La Flesche, Suzette | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Nedawi | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "NEDAWI!" called her mother, "take your little brother while I go
with your sister for some wood." Nedawi ran into the tent,
bringing back her little red blanket, but the brown-faced, roly-poly baby, who had been having a comfortable nap in spite of being
all the while tied straight to his board, woke with a merry crow
just as the mother was about to attach him, board and all, to
Nedawi's neck. So he was taken from the board instead, and, after
he had kicked in happy freedom for a moment, Nedawi stood in front
of her mother, who placed Habazhu on the little girl's back, and
drew the blanket over him, leaving his arms free. She next put
into his hand a little hollow gourd, filled with seeds, which
served as a rattle; Nedawi held both ends of the blanket tightly in
front of her, and was then ready to walk around with the little
man. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 214 | Author: | Fox, John | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Hell fer Sartain and Other Stories | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAR was a dancin'-party Christmas
night on “Hell fer Sartain.” Jes tu'n
up the fust crick beyond the bend thar,
an' climb onto a stump, an' holler about
once, an' you'll see how the name come.
Stranger, hit's hell fer sartain! Well,
Rich Harp was thar from the head-waters, an' Harve Hall toted Nance
Osborn clean across the Cumberlan'.
Fust one ud swing Nance, an' then
t'other. Then they'd take a pull out'n
the same bottle o' moonshine, an'—fust
one an' then t'other—they'd swing her
agin. An' Abe Shivers a-settin' thar
by the fire a-bitin' his thumbs! | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 215 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Criss-cross | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SELMA WHEELOCK sat in her accustomed place beside a front window.
She swayed gently in her hair-cloth rocker. She leaned her head
back and sidewise, and gazed out at the prospect with an expression
almost absurdly tragic. Tragedy did not sit comfortably upon those
mild features in that long, sweet face, softly curtained with folds
of thin, blond hair which had not turned gray, although Selma was
almost an old woman. However, tragedy, hawk-like, unswerving, did
look from Selma's blue eyes. She might, from her expression, have
been gazing at some scene of horror instead of at her own tidy,
square front yard with its gravel walk bordered with leafless
shrubs, with a leafless cherry-tree standing stark upon one side,
and a leafless horse-chestnut on the other. Beyond the front yard
with its prim fence was the main street of the village; opposite
was Maria Hopkins's house. When Selma's eyes roved beyond her own
front yard and the main street, and fastened upon Maria Hopkins's
house, the tragedy deepened. It seemed about to swoop, fierce
beaked and clawed. There was seemingly nothing exasperating about
the opposite house. It was a plain white structure with a door in
the middle front and two windows on each side of the door. The
house was raised upon terraces over which clambered rough stone
steps. Upon each of the terraces were two trees—cherry upon the
upper, horse-chestnut upon the lower. Two of the windows at the
front displayed slants of lace curtains, two plain white shades. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 216 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Emancipation | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OLD Billy Thomas sat beside the window. He had the weekly
religious newspaper on his knee. He was not reading it. He never
read it. If questioned, he could not have told why he so
apparently cherished it. There was certainly no affectation about
Billy, and least of all affectation with regard to religion. He
was a very good old man, leavened to his own amusement with a
queer, childish mischievousness bordering upon the malicious. This
leaven might not have developed had it not been for his daughter
Esther, who all unwittingly was especially fitted to produce such
development. Now Esther was not at home. She had gone down street
on an errand. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 217 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Last Gift | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ROBINSON CARNES pilgrimmed along the country road between Sanderson
and Elmville. He wore a shabby clerical suit, and he carried a
rusty black bag which might have contained sermons. It did
actually hold one sermon, a favorite which he had delivered many
times in many pulpits, and in which he felt a certain covert pride
of authorship. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 218 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Revolt of Sophia Lane | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE level of new snow in Sophia Lane's north yard was broken by
horse's tracks and the marks of sleigh-runners. Sophia's second
cousin, Mrs. Adoniram Cutting, her married daughter Abby Dodd, and
unmarried daughter Eunice had driven over from Addison, and put up
their horse and sleigh in Sophia's clean, unused barn. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 220 | Author: | Furman, Lucy S. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | A Special Providence | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MRS. MELISSA ALLGOOD settled herself in her rocking-chair for a
good talk. "I was telling you," she began, "about Sister Belle
Keen and Brother Singleton and me being a Holiness Band last
summer, and preaching all around in middle Kentucky, and about
Brother Singleton taking down so sick at Smithsboro, and Sister
Belle getting her eyes opened, and marrying him, and taking him
home. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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