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" I don't take any hand in this yer game," had been his invariable but good-humored reply to all questions. The Judge — who was also his captor — for a moment vaguely regretted that he had not shot him "on sight," that morning, but presently dismissed... "
Appleton's Magazine - Page 22
1903
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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

Bret Harte - 1871 - 282 pages
...Tennessee safe in their hands they were ready to listen patiently to any defence, which they were alz'eady satisfied was insufficient. There being no doubt in..."jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

Bret Harte - 1871 - 276 pages
...this yer game," had been his invariable, but good-humored reply to all questions. The Judge — M'ho was also his captor — for a moment vaguely regretted..."jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches

Bret Harte - 1871 - 288 pages
...preseatLmliamissed this " human weakness as unworthy of the judicial mind. Nevertheless, when there was ITtap at the door, and it was said that Tennessee's Partner..."jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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Prose and poetry [a reissue of] i. The luck of Roaring camp, and other ...

Francis Bret Harte - 1872 - 442 pages
...was stifling with heated resinous odours, and the decaying drift-wood on the Bar sent forth faint, sickening exhalations. The feverishness of day, and..."jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches

Bret Harte - 1873 - 268 pages
...personal feeling of the chase were over ; with Tennessee safe in their hands they were ready to lister? patiently to any defence, which they were already..." jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Stories: Including Earlier Papers ...

Bret Harte - 1882 - 434 pages
...the jury, to whom the proceedings were becoming irksomely thoughtful, hailed him as a relief. I''or he was not, certainly, an imposing figure. Short and...duck "jumper" and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1889 - 700 pages
...the jury, to whom the proceedings were becoming irksomely thoughtful, hailed him as a relief. For be was not. certainly, an imposing figure. Short and..." jumper," and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Stories

Bret Harte - 1903 - 292 pages
...this yer game," had been his invariable but good-humored reply to all questions. The Judge — wht, was also his captor — for a moment vaguely regretted..." jumper " and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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The Luck of Roaring Camp: And Other Sketches

Bret Harte - 1892 - 294 pages
...the jury, to whom the proceedings were becoming irksomely thoughtful, hailed him as a relief. Fir h* was not, certainly, an imposing figure. Short and..." jumper " and trousers streaked and splashed with red soil, his aspect under any circumstances would have been quaint, and was now even ridiculous. As...
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Popular American readings in prose and verse, ed. by R. Ford

Robert Ford - 1893 - 148 pages
...Tennessee's Partner was there on behalf of the prisoner, he was admitted at once without question. He was not, certainly, an imposing figure. Short and stout, with a square face, sunburnt into a preternatural redness, clad in a loose duck "jumper" and trousers streaked and splashed...
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