Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...empire, should he divest himself of his club feet, could walk from one end of the country to another in no less than a year. The ship which I took at Canton brought me first to San Francisco. The people of that city showed me great respect. Whenever they saw me on the street, they crowded around me and shouted "Oh, see the Chinaman; pull his pigtail; knock him down!" - expressions which, my interpreter told me, signified great pleasure of seeing me. Some even actually pulled my long plait of hair, - evidently a very high compliment. For the Americans express...
...saw, and was enchanted...
PERHAPS you saw him with me in the Yard last week, - a long, thin man dressed in black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled as I saw...
...hour passed. Sundry "braces" at Carl's had made me feel more like meeting my Uncle Luther. I entered the room quietly to see what the old cove was about. By thunder, he was still looking at the pictures! When he saw me, the picture dropped, and I fancied I saw a blush his cheek. "Nathaniel," - the storm was coming; but as I began to feel as if I did n't care whether school kept or not, I lit a cigarette (he abominates smoking) and sat on the table prepared to take it, - take it, - "Nathaniel," he repeated, "these...
Eight o'clock saw us seated in the front row of the Howard; I determined to give him a benefit for once. Before the curtain rose, he was nervous and fidgety, but, the curtain once up, and his eyes were glued to the stage; they opened wider and wider, spots of color came in his cheeks, and his breath came and went rapidly; to look at him was more fun than the play. Never once during the evening did he look away from the stage, and when the play was over he bade me good-night, and without saying more...