 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer...inside of it I never had seen its institutions before. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about. . . . When I came out of prison — for some... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1881 - 774 pages
...spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer...inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. * * * In the morning our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small, oblong, square... | |
 | George Stewart - 1882 - 44 pages
...spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn, — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer...inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. * * * In the morning our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small, oblong, square... | |
 | 1913 - 390 pages
...rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I had never seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar...shire town; I began to comprehend what its inhabitants wore about." Farther ahead I observed the street to be brighter, and in a short time I was in the heart... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pages
...the jail. Probably this is the only house in the town where verses are composed, which are afterwards printed in a circular form, but not published. I was...view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I ne^er had seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions ; for it is a shire... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 336 pages
...open, which were inside the grating. It was a 1 The date is wrongly given in Emerson's Memoir as 1847. closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I never had seen its institutions before. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about." The next morning he was discharged, some friend... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pages
...had heard the town-clock strike before, nor th» evening sounds of the village ; for we slept witl the windows open, which were inside the grating. It...inhabitants were about. In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblongsquare tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pages
...village ; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the gratCIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 169 ing. It was to see my native village in the light of the...inhabitants were about. In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblongsquare tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pages
...was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Khine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed...inhabitants were about. In the morning, our breakfasts were put through the hole in the door, in small oblongsquare tin pans, made to fit, and holding a pint... | |
 | 1895 - 610 pages
...spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn — a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside i". I had never seen its institutions before. * ' In the morning our breakfasts were put throuph the... | |
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It was like travelling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that I never had heard the town-clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open,... 
