Gather No Moss


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Determined to see all forty-eight states, Oliver Janvier sets off to learn more about the world than can be found in books or taught at school. Along the way he drifts from job to job, moves in and out of relationships, and is also witness to the Larchmont disaster and to his own brothers history-making athletic career. Spanning five decades of American history, Gather No Moss is a classic story of American wanderlust, stubborn independence, and the insatiable quest for new adventure.




Gather No Moss


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I Love This Game-Rolling Bodies Gather No Moss


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Take a college baseball coach and have chosen for you an assistant with no baseball experience. Now, combine them with a Japanese contingent of players who speak no English. Add beautiful Rhonda, a streetwise stickball player; some skydiving; a baseball schedule that includes an elementary school, a local prison; a cross-dressing athletic director; and a wise-cracking announcer, and watch them fumble their way through a baseball season. An Internal Affairs detective and a Benton County police officer, will help put private detective E.J. Cord onto the trial of his friend's killer. He will have to cross the U.S. and in doing so, will run into a host of misadventures. Kidnapping, drugs, and murder, will be on his menu. Will he ever be able to quiet the guilt that constantly haunts his dreams...that he was the cause of her murder? Her murdered friends only transgression, was being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The 'time and place' was ever having known E.J. Cord.




Gather No Moss


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Account of northern Australia, 1880s; p.10-11; Yanta Wonta tribe, Nappamerrie, stacked firewood at native grave Tanbar; p.14-17; Queensland policy in subduing tribes, trade routes of Warramungas & Waggires, articles traded, flint quarry 6 miles east of Renners Springs; black troopers near Mulligan River; p.42-44; Native attacked with nulla nulla near Burketown & Camooweal; p.47-53; Story of half-caste Joe Flick & police, Burketown; p.74-78; Clashes with whites Kimberley area, many cases of native help; p.119-121; N.T. settlers effect on Larrakiahs, Wulwulam, Wogaits; p.140-141; Spearings, Jasper Gorge; p.153-155; Wandi area, camp cooking, gold collecting by Aboriginal girl, mimicry; p.164-168; Katie, Anula tribe Banka Banka, women's dressing, clothing, wild natives, axe trading near Borroloola, reference to B. Spencer; p.171; Glydes Inlet to Waterhouse, contact with Munjongs; p.180-183; White man killed Guion Point, police hunt; p.185-186; Native well near Newcastle Waters, camp attack Armstrong Creek; p.188-189; 8 Warramunga words; p.194-195; Attempted attack near Durack Range camp; p.211; Cutter Avis shipwrecked off Bathurst Island, crew taken to Mission; p.214; Reaction to films.




I Gathered No Moss


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The Wisdom of Many


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A collection of 20 studies of proverbs first published in 1981 by Garland. Among the general topics are structure, oral transmission, and practical reasoning. Proverbs examined in detail include African, Yiddish, Shakespeare's, Chinese, Irish, and those used in advertising. Includes an addenda to the bibliography. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




African-American Proverbs in Context


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Such sayings as "Hard times make a monkey eat red pepper when he don't care for black", "The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice", and "Nothing ruins a duck but its bill" convey not only axiomatic impact but also profound contextual meanings. This study of African-American proverbs is the first to probe deeply into these meanings and contexts. Sw. Anand Prahlad's interest in proverbs dates back to his own childhood in rural Virginia when he listened to his great-grandmother's stories. Very early he began collecting "sayings". In researching this book, he spent five years listening for proverbs spoken in bars, clubs, churches, and retirement homes; on street corners, basketball courts, and public buses; at PTA meetings and bingo games. To discover the full context of a proverb, Prahlad considers four levels of meanings - grammatical, cultural, situational, and symbolic. All these operate simultaneously when a proverb is spoken. Part of the artistry in using proverbs comes from the complex interplay of the dimensions of their meanings. From WPA interviews with former slaves, from the lyrics of blues songs, from extensive field research, and from expressions of protest and cultural affirmation, the author reveals the myriad ways African-American proverbs thrive today.







Familiar Quotations


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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases


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p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."




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