Sentences with phrase «tales about his ancestors»
His strongest apostrophes of rage, guilt, and frustration occur midway through a narrative interspersed with background stories: tales about his ancestors and their adventures in Europe, his mother's education, the lives of his friends and neighbors, his grandmother's obsession with cleanliness, and his grandfather's eccentricities.
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Get into a country store and sit on the cracker - box by the side of two or three Georgia «colonels» and «majors,» and they will tell any number of tales about how their ancestors bought their estates from the Indians and to close up the bargain gave the «noble red men» a barbecue, consisting of venison and sweetened hoe - cake, followed by plenty of imported rum and other «firewaters.»
We've got head, pubic and clothing lice, all with tales to tell about evolution, including how our ancestors cosied up to gorillas
Ontario, Canada About Blog Melissa is a Canadian, polytheistic / animistic witch, interested in shamanism and pre-christian spiritual practices, journeying to other worlds, sacred crafting, fairy tales, mythology, spell - songs and music writing, working with her Gods and Ancestors, gardening and interacting with the local wights, weaving magick and enchantment into the «mundane».