 | Cindy Sondik Aron - 2001 - 340 pagini
...Frederick Marryat described in 1838 a campground near Cincinnati encompassing "an acre and a half. . . surrounded on the four sides by cabins built up of rough boards." A preacher's pulpit at the center was encircled by "hundreds of tents pitched in every quarter." Marryat... | |
 | Mark Twain - 2001 - 658 pagini
...Chapter '52 of his 184!) diary, a work Twain read and extensively quoted in Life on the Mississippi: About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides bv cabins built up of rough boards, the whole area in the centre was fitted up with planks, laid about... | |
 | Andrew Wilson-Dickson - 2003 - 268 pagini
...The many editions of this influential hymn-book more carefully organized, though no less emotional About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four...about a foot from the ground, as seats. At one end. . . was a raised stand, which served as a pulpit for the preachers. . . Outside the area. . . were... | |
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About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides by cabins built up of rough boards; the whole area in the centre was fitted up with planks, laid about a foot from the ground, as seats. At one end, but not close to the cabins, was a raised stand,... 