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Updated: May 8, 2025
He crossed to the window and exclaimed, "Lord, how good it is to think of lanes, muddy lanes, with brambles and nettles, you know, and real grass fields, and farmyards with pigs and cows, and men walking beside carts with pitchforks there's nothing to compare with that here look at the stony red earth, and the bright blue sea, and the glaring white houses how tired one gets of it!
A synod of wise men and women sat upon the woman of timber, and she was finally ordered to be devoured by fire, and that in the open air. A fire was soon made, and into it the elfin sculpture was tossed from the prongs of two pairs of pitchforks.
Oh, my dear, dear hearers, can you can you, with your fleshy hearts thumping and bumping against your small ribs, forget the black butler, and the mulatto concubines, and the pitchforks, and the iron ladles full of molten lead? My feelings overpower me, I must conclude. Go in peace, and ponder these things in your hearts, and pay your sixpences at the doors.
The wonder is that the knives and forks are not made to correspond in length with the repasts, in which case the latter would be pitchforks, and the former John-Brown pikes. The people of Washington are as various, mixed, dissimilar, and contrasted as the edifices they inhabit.
'Good Christian people, I said, and told them all about it, 'do not let a Christian soul perish. . . . I waked them all up. . . . The peasants gathered together and went with me, . . one with a cord, one with an oakstick, others with pitchforks. . . . We broke in the gates of the inn-yard and went straight to the cellar. . . . And the robbers had just finished sharpening their knives and were going to kill the merchant.
There I beheld the devils with pitchforks, tossing the damned up into the air that they might fall headlong on poisoned hatchets or barbed pikes, there to wriggle their bowels out.
Hunger and tiredness had taken most of his spirit out of him, or he could never have resisted such an opportunity for a fight; the enemy numbered six to one, too, not to speak of the farmer, who was armed with a long whip, and two or three workmen, who were well provided with sticks or pitchforks, and hungry, footsore Dick did not at that moment feel equal to facing them all, and doing himself justice.
He sprang with incredible agility towards the fowls, and in a trice had a couple of them shrieking and fluttering in his grasp. In a breath the Chinamen thirty or forty strong uttering a long, peculiar shout, armed themselves with pitchforks at all events, a species of weapon that to my young eyes resembled a pitchfork, sticks, and stones, and gave chase.
The nation rose as one man though forty-nine of the revolutionists were of the other sex. The infantry threw down their pitchforks; the artillery cast aside their cocoa-nuts; the navy revolted; the emperor was seized, and bound hand and foot in his palace. He was very much depressed. He said:
"And, " continued Eyebright, her voice trembling more than ever, "they have all got pitchforks, you know, and guns, and oh, mercy! what was that? The hay moved, girls, it did move, I saw it!" All scrambled to their feet prepared to fly, but before any one could start, the hay in the corner parted, and, cackling and screaming, out flew Mrs.
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