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...well. "They was t'ousands of the big whales on the coast them times...They whales never hurted we, and we never hurted they...And I'll tell you one quare thing. So long as they was on the fishing grounds along of we, I never was afeard of anything, no, nor never felt lonely neither. But after times, when the whales was all done to death...I'd get a lonely feeling in my belly, like the world was all empty. I missed them whales when they were gone. 'Tis strange. Some folks say as whales are only fish...
...this approach is explicit and visual. A bishop's red robes billow out on crinoline hoops, a cartoon of gluttony, indicating that the church would feed on men's lives to fatten its authority. The foot soldier who delivers the tenderly piteous speech that includes "I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle" is a Negro, suggesting that the king rules by exploitive oppression. When the list of the French dead is read, each dead man rises with a blood-splotched white mask to stand at the footlights in a solid phalanx facing...
...shoulder, determined to get his rights. He got a setback from the school superintendent, who told him he had not thought he would ever see a Lewis County man afraid to fight a wildcat. Father Johnson admitted the cateymount had him purely frightened. "I've never been afeard of man ner beast," he said, "but when that old cateymount yowls near our house it just makes my hair stand plumb straight up on my head." The old man hoped the authorities would bring in dogs to track the cateymount down. "Dogs that aren't afeard. Our dogs...
Kissed Nancy Fidget, and made her afeard...
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