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Updated: May 19, 2025
Her innocence made her all sweet as a small, sound strawberry lying unpicked in the leaves, and manifested itself in a way that caused love and laughter in this absurd dress whose too thick silk, too tangible lace, evidently proceeded from some theory of allurement which one had thought all adults too sophisticated to hold. Oh, she had been beautiful!
How useless is it to teach that vanity should never be indulged in, when a mother delights in display! Such instruction as this is like the web of Penelope unpicked as fast as done.
This day's row carried me past heavily-wooded shores, cotton-fields with some of the cotton still unpicked; past the limits of Missouri on the left side, and into the wild state of Arkansas at Island No. 21. I finally camped on Island No. 26, in a half submerged thicket, after a row of fifty-eight miles.
Small wonder that the poor little white slaves, taking up their serfdom at the loom where the negro left off at the lint, die like pigs in a cotton-seed pen. There was cotton everywhere in the fields, unpicked; in the gin-houses, unginned. That in the fields would be plowed under next spring, presenting the strange anomaly of plowing under one crop to raise another of the same kind.
She took the pillow case, and unpicked a few stitches, which clearly indicated that the needle had been taking giant strides. "Just hem that last inch or two again, and see if you can't make it look nice. I believe the needle only stuck into your finger because you were making it sew so badly. Have you got a handkerchief? but, of course, you haven't."
NURSE: Is your grandmamma old or young? CHILD: She is old. NURSE: Was she ever young? CHILD: Yes. NURSE: Why is she not young now? CHILD: She has grown old. NURSE: Will you grow old too? CHILD: I don't know. NURSE: Where are your last year's frocks? CHILD: They have been unpicked. NURSE: Why! CHILD: Because they were too small for me. NURSE: Why were they too small? CHILD: I have grown bigger.
"Lord bless us and save us!" cried Mrs. Wragge, with the most helpless amazement. The two exclamations were uttered in a moment, and in that moment Mrs. Lecount took the measure of her victim. Nothing of the least importance escaped her. She noticed the Oriental Cashmere Robe lying half made, and half unpicked again, on the table; she noticed the imbecile foot of Mrs.
"Unhood your hawk," Brilliana ordered. Thoroughgood, obedient, unpicked the knot of the handkerchief, revealing his companion's face.
"I never am tired, child, while I see my work before me; don't you know that? And it's a sin to let the ripe fruit go unpicked. I wonder what it grows in such a place for! Who were you with all day?" "Different people." "Did Will Flandin find you?" "Yes." "He was in a takin' to know where you were. So I just gave him a bit of a notion."
"We were all so furious," writes Crockett, "that even the certainty of a pretty hard fight could not have restrained us." But to the intense mortification of these valiant men, not a single living being was to be found as food for bullet or tomahawk. The huts were all deserted, and despoiled of every article of any value. There was not a skin, or an unpicked bone, or a kernel of corn left behind.
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