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| ... answer from life. Alice took a pillow into her arms and held it tightly against her breasts. Getting out of bed, she arranged a blanket so that in the darkness it looked like a form lying between the sheets and, kneeling beside the bed, she caressed it, whispering words over ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... had to go trudging off to the station with the old woman, bearing all of their earthly belongings done up in a worn-out blanket and slung across his back. By his side walked the grandmother urging him forward. Her toothless old mouth twitched nervously, and when Tom grew weary ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... cut down saplings which they fitted in the Page 34 form of bows across the body of the wagon, and stretching the lieutenant's army blanket over it, made a very effectual shelter. Our next halt was near a dilapidated old house where there was a fine well of water. The ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... a queer-looking object sitting on a log in the corner of a half-burnt fence. It was wrapped up in a big white blanket that left nothing else visible except a round, red face and a huge pair of feet. Before anybody could decide whether the apparition was a ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... with a common ague fit, and though we couldn't help feeling sorry for him, he looked so comical as he stood there with his blanket drawn round him like a winding sheet and his little red Dutch face peering out at us with such an expression of exaggerated and needless ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... out of his pocket, he ("Sam") handed them to the Dutchman, saying: "Well, here's shin-plasters enough to cover you better than that there blanket, if you want them." Hans grabbed the money, which was increased by small contributions from the rest of us - not that we thought his enlistment ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... afterwards ripped off in the strenuous days when our boys were following the "Stars and Bars," and the blue field used to line the blanket of a Confederate soldier. What was left of it when he came back is still preserved in the family. My father was not what would ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... negroes out of doors. They are living as they can, under trees and hedges, and some of them have no shelter but an old blanket stretched over a pole, or a few boards propped against a fence. It is distressing to see the poor wretches in such a plight, but ... |
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[ SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES]
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| ... that we shall probably never all sit together again around that cheery old table, where so many friends have met, came like a wet blanket between us and mirth. The captain and Cousin Boiling are going to make their home in New Orleans. The Elzeys return to Baltimore. When Touchy''s ... |
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[ SPANISH FICTION]
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| ... even more. She made me sleep with the apprentices on a large table without a damned thing to cover us but a worn-out blanket. I spent two days on the miserable food that I could afford with ten coppers. Then the wife of a tanner joined the fraternity, and ... |
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[ SPANISH FICTION]
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| ... back to my house? give you enough payment to settle every score--past and present." He called his servants, and they brought a blanket and tossed me in it to their own pleasure, which was my grief. They left me for dead and laid me out on a bench like ... |
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