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Updated: June 27, 2025
The surgeon, Harry and I bowed from the room and stepped out to the water-bucket and gourd. From there we could see the missing two, lingering at the dooryard gate, in the bright moonlight. As we finished drinking, "Gentlemen," murmured Harry, "I fear our position is too exposed to be tenable." The surgeon started upstairs.
The natives, who were Matabili, were tall, powerful men, well proportioned, and with regular features; their hair was shorn, and surmounted with an oval ring attached to the scalp, and the lobe of their left ears was perforated with such a large hole, that it contained a small gourd, which was used as a snuff-box.
The natives, who were Matabili, were tall, powerful men, well proportioned, and with regular features; their hair was shorn, and surmounted with an oval ring attached to the scalp, and the lobe of their left ears was perforated with such a large hole, that it contained a small gourd, which was used as a snuff-box.
And when, from the field and afar, there came back the people, they took the gourd and drank from out of it. And presently there came to this man another and, in time, others of like nature, chosen by the gods and so they worked together; and soon they fashioned, from the moistened earth, forms resembling the gourd.
Then the cat changed into a worm, which buried itself in a pomegranate that had fallen from a tree over-hanging the tank in the court, and the pomegranate began to swell until it became as large as a gourd, which then rose into the air, rolled backwards and forwards several times, and then fell into the court and broke into a thousand pieces.
She doesn't know I am as bald as a gourd. Here is her miniature. I'll not send her mine; she might laugh." Dic took the picture and saw a sweet, tender face, fringed by white curls, and aglow with soft, brown eyes. "Do you see a resemblance in the miniature to to any one you know?" asked Billy Little.
I had a feeling as if I were at last about to taste life. In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd. I wandered whither chance might lead in a still ecstasy of freedom and enjoyment. That evening I formed a project of crossing to a continental port, and finding a vessel was about to start, I joined her at once in the river.
It should be remembered, too, that the present battleship is not a sudden invention, springing up in a night, like Jonah's gourd, or newly contrived by a council sitting for the purpose, like a brand-new Constitution of the French Revolution. The battleship of to-day is the outcome of a gradual evolution extending over forty years.
"You do the proper thing in setting out these kind of glasses; puts me in mind of my old home down in Texas, where we never drink out of anything smaller than a tin cup or a gourd." "Here is to Annie and Rayder may your posterity become presidents and wives of presidents." "Drink hearty," said Rayder, emptying his glass, which he had filled to the fullness of Amos' out of compliment.
Hence the singular feature that each household got its livelihood from two distinct groups of blood-relatives. The home which we have entered belonged to the quarters of the Gourd people, or clan Tanyi hanutsh, from which the mother descended; and Okoya had slept at night in the estufa of that cluster ever since his thirteenth year.
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