 | Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - History - 1993 - 518 pages
...he looked at me as if to say, that, though by no means gloriously arrayed, I was a mere cumbererof the ground; inasmuch as I toiled not, neither did...cannot be Napoleon Bonapartes, so all women cannot be mangiers; the majority of the sex must be satisfied with simply being mangled. Re-assured by this idea,... | |
 | Paula Mitchell Marks - History - 1998 - 460 pages
...marry, and make money by the operation." He looked at Louise, she reported, "as if to say that ... I was a mere cumberer of the ground; inasmuch as I toiled not, neither did I wash." Nonetheless, Clappe enjoyed a favored status as a representative of civilization and femininity. By... | |
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Hunt was wont to gaze upon that friend of his, "who used to elevate the common-place to a pitch of the sublime;" and he looked at me as if to say, that, though by no means gloriously arrayed, I was a mere cumberer of the ground; inasmuch as I toiled not,... 