| Abram English Brown - 1897 - 422 páginas
...double. The contents seemed to be pots and kettles, various sorts of furniture, children peeping through gridirons and other utensils, some very young infants who were born on the road. The women were bare-footed, and clothed in dirty rags. Such effluvia filled the air while they were passing,... | |
| Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1928 - 734 páginas
...contents seemed to be pots and kettles and various sorts of furniture, — children peering through gridirons and other utensils, — some very young infants who were born on the road, — the women barefooted and clothed in rags, — such effluvia filled the air while they were passing that, had... | |
| Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sheila Tobias - 1990 - 292 páginas
...of burthen, having a bushel basket on their back by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...very young Infants who were born on the road, the women's bare feet clothed in dirty raggs, such effluvia filled the air while they were passing, had... | |
| Linda Grant De Pauw - 1975 - 244 páginas
...of burden, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking... | |
| Janice Potter-MacKinnon - 1995 - 220 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...Infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking... | |
| Karen Zeinert - 1996 - 104 páginas
...they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of furniture . . . some very young infants who were born on the road, the women [barefoot], clothed in dirty rags."4 British and Hessian camp followers could remain in the colonies... | |
| William G. Shade - 1998 - 314 páginas
...described the women who accompanied Burgoyne's surrendered army, struggling through Cambridge in 1777: "great numbers of women, who seemd to be the beasts...on the road, the women bare feet, cloathd in dirty rags . . . ."" Susannah Rowson's Charlotte Temple, at the end of her rope, is bitterly advised to "go... | |
| Harry M. Ward - 1999 - 324 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...Infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking... | |
| Linda Grant De Pauw - 2000 - 440 páginas
...of burden, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents deemed to be Pots and Kettles, various sorts of Furniture,...infants who were born on the road, the women bare feet, cloathed in dirty rags, such effluvia filld the air while they were passing, had they not been smoaking... | |
| David Hackett Fischer - 2006 - 576 páginas
...burthen, having a bushel basket on their back, by which they were bent double, the contents seemed to be pots and kettles, various sorts of furniture,...children peeping thro' gridirons and other utensils." Like the men they soldiered with, some women were heroes and some were criminals. Many helped others,... | |
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