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Page xi
... clean and white New England houses and stiff and angular men . He got Virginia's mansions , too , the opulent pillars and porticoes , soaring dormers , and the rich shade of verandas . I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . xi.
... clean and white New England houses and stiff and angular men . He got Virginia's mansions , too , the opulent pillars and porticoes , soaring dormers , and the rich shade of verandas . I thought Lankes would do as well by Maine . xi.
Page xii
... houses , our fields like new patches on old pants . He got the lusty lines on our handsome he - men , the right angles of our heads and our jaws . He multiplied my Saltwater Farm poems by two . This man is at home anywhere that is ...
... houses , our fields like new patches on old pants . He got the lusty lines on our handsome he - men , the right angles of our heads and our jaws . He multiplied my Saltwater Farm poems by two . This man is at home anywhere that is ...
Page xvi
... houses . These words are household words of our own , words that we are married and buried by . They make us think ... house is wooden and sharp - cornered . It gives the light back and doesn't absorb it as the English stone does ...
... houses . These words are household words of our own , words that we are married and buried by . They make us think ... house is wooden and sharp - cornered . It gives the light back and doesn't absorb it as the English stone does ...
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