Army Life in a Black RegimentFields, Osgood & Company, 1870 - 296 lappuses |
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Army Life in a Black Regiment: (Aberdeen Classics Collection) Thomas Wentworth Higginson Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 2020 |
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185. lappuse - I'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms." Never, it seems to me, since man first lived and suffered, was his infinite longing for peace uttered more plaintively than in that line.
185. lappuse - I'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms; Lay dis body down. I go to de judgment in de evenin' of de day, When I lay dis body down; And my soul and your soul will meet in de day When I lay dis body down.
264. lappuse - African descent as you may. deem expedient, not exceeding five thousand ; and may detail officers to instruct them in military drill, discipline, and duty, and to command them ; the persons so received into service, and their officers, to be entitled to and receive the same pay and rations as are allowed by law to Volunteers in the service.
185. lappuse - I know moon-rise, I know star-rise, Lay dis body down. I walk in de moonlight, I walk in de starlight, To lay dis body down. I'll walk in de graveyard, I'll walk through de graveyard, To lay dis body down. I'll lie in de grave and stretch out my arms; Lay dis body down. I go to de judgment in de evenin...
24. lappuse - Let me lib wid de musket in one hand an' de Bible in de oder, — dat if I die at de muzzle ob de musket, die in de water, die on de land, I may know I hab de bressed Jesus in my hand, an' hab no fear." " I hab lef my wife in de land o...
195. lappuse - bout de nigger-driver, O, gwine away! Nigger-driver second devil, O, gwine away! Best ting for do he driver, O, gwine away! Knock he down and spoil he labor, O, gwine away!" It will be observed that, although this song is quite secular in its character, its author yet called it a "spiritual.
39. lappuse - tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing! (The singing continues quietly under the rest of the speech.) HIGGINSON. Firmly the quavering voices sang on, verse after verse; others of the colored people joined in; some whites on the platform began, but I motioned them to silence. I never saw anything so electric; it made all other words cheap; it seemed the choked voice of a race at last unloosed.
174. lappuse - ... or twice. The words will be here given, as nearly as possible, in the original dialect; and if the spelling seems sometimes inconsistent, or the misspelling insufficient, it is because I could get no nearer.
162. lappuse - guard-mounting" in the morning, when the men who are to go on guard duty for the day are drawn up to be inspected, Baby was always there, to help inspect them. She did not say much, but she eyed them very closely, and seemed fully to appreciate their bright buttons.
195. lappuse - I made a sing, just puttin' a word, and den anudder word." Then he began singing, and the men, after listening a moment, joined in the chorus as if it were an old acquaintance, though they evidently had never heard it before. I saw how easily a new "sing