| 单词 | up-country |
| 例句 | I got the roasting heat and the crocodiles and the snakes and the long safaris up-country, selling Shell oil to the men who ran the diamond mines and the sisal plantations. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Mantel is gloriously specific as to the what, where and how of her history, and she doesn’t apologize for it: They ride up-country towards Katherine without banner or display, a tight knot of armed men. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z The six-month-old Sardine takes the experience one better: you can watch stalks growing under the stars while seated in a bamboo pavilion with massive thatched eaves handcrafted by artisans from an up-country village. Pack Them In at Sardine Restaurant 2010-03-03T10:00:00Z Divisions between up-country and lowlands roiled the politics of the Upper South, as low country planters resisted yeoman demands for greater representation and state expenditures on internal improvements. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z All that bile came out in this devastating portrait of small-minded, deeply racist Brits in a tiny up-country town. Top 10 books about Burma 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z "I bought land up-country, bought a house, paid school fees and looked after my family," said the father of two. Donkeys face 'biggest ever crisis' 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Album can be a bit monotone at times, but great tracks include “The Reason I’m Here,” the up-country “Three Chords and the Truth” and quiet closer “Longing.” Prophets of Rage and Arcade Fire among artists releasing new music 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z On Thursday, Paris, which now has 1,600 men in the country, said most guns had been taken off the streets of Bangui and troops had begun disarming gunmen up-country. Central African Republic humanitarian crisis mounts even as attacks ease 2013-12-13T00:00:32Z Mafeking of yore was somewhat stately, although it was merely a colonial up-country centre, possessing nothing which was grandiose or even elegant. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z She goes to spend a holiday up-country, and here, too, her icily-regular line of conduct seems bound to bring her into conflict with her free-and-easy-going cousins. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z However, the General got nothing out of us, and within an hour we were put on horses and marched up-country with a strong escort of those ruffians. Swift and Sure 2012-03-16T02:00:24.627Z Lonely writers in up-country stations brooded on her perfections, as advertised by Mrs. Craigie, and came to the conclusion that she was precisely the woman wanted to convert their secluded establishments into homes. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z On reaching Natal he showed these to an old Australian miner, who instantly started up-country and found more. The Romance of Industry and Invention 2011-12-19T03:00:43.870Z Voyages up-country are of necessity slow, but the return journey is made with comparatively great rapidity, distances laboriously covered on the up-trip in three days being done easily in seven hours when coming back. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z His exemption was not obtained by disregard of the conditions of Indian life up-country. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z The Italian, Rinaldi, had been captured, after three years of a wandering life, far up-country; in a trader’s store, near the Zambesi. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z An American would probably have less patience than any European in negotiating a purchase of produce from an up-country native; the waste of time would exasperate him. The Inhabitants of the Philippines 2011-11-23T03:00:21.653Z The Pathan replied, "You two are up-country men; here are three Bengali thugs quaking in fear." Chaitanya's Life And Teachings From his contemporary Begali biography the Chaitanya-charit-amrita 2011-11-16T03:00:26.507Z In "Tom who was Rachel" the author has described a large family of children living on an up-country station; and the story presents a faithful picture of the everyday life of the bush. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z That night we started for the up-country post to which G. had been appointed, and where he was expected to begin his duties on the following Sunday. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z Suddenly his eye caught the white tent of another waggon, which had come in during the afternoon, and was on its way up-country. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z About this date, in the up-country there were several young men who began trading in these stocks largely on a brokerage proposition. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 2011-10-19T02:00:21.010Z Last New Year’s Day he was up-country hunting for gold near the Crocodile River. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z The club-house at Pau is of the kind you would expect to discover at a good club of long and honourable standing up-country in England. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z We had been in the up-country but a few days when your Aunt Lucy, as lovely a young girl as the sun ever shone on, was seized with fever. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z That crocodile came from up-country, and I suppose the diamond came from the same locality. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z But you can have adventures of sorts if you go far enough up-country for 'em; it still pays you to know how to use your fists out there. The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z The speaker was an up-country Georgian, one of the kind called “Goobers” by the soldiers generally—lean, 94 yellow, attenuated, with wispy strands of hair hanging over his high, thin cheek-bones. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z The seasoned hands had evidently prepared a plan of campaign, and had made ample provision for a lengthy tramp up-country, by stocking their bags with such preserved foods as they fancied. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z In a few days we went to the up-country to be with friends, and then last week came down to Otranto, where we are now. Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army 2011-08-19T02:00:11.243Z But the crocodile skin, Sam Vesthreim said, was a bit of a curio, and he particularly wanted it left at some friend’s place farther up-country. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z He’s been an up-country sportsman in his time, and shot lots of them.” The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Directly in front of me sat an old Georgia up-country woman, placidly regarding the box cars full of men on the parallel rails, waiting, like ourselves, to start. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z The spot was a drift on the Great Fish River crossed by an important main road which was one of the principal lines of transport up-country. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z There were several hundred reservists still on board, with no facilities for their transfer up-country. Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:25.163Z I have been puzzling mightily over this case, and I must say, the more I think of it, the more unaccountable seems to me the fact of Sam Vesthreim sending that dried crocodile skin up-country. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z As in all up-country stations, the European residences in Meerut were scattered over an immense area. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The other man had arrived by the last mail steamer from England, and he and I had booked to start by the up-country train at half-past ten. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Go away for a change, and do some travel or up-country hunting. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z I used to obtain goods in Cape Town on credit, take them up-country to barter with, and afterwards return with cattle and sheep, which I sold to the butchers at a good profit. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z “Do you remember intrusting Mr Ayling with some goods about that time to take up-country?” From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Sanders said nothing beyond using the conventional expressions of polite interest, and despatched the young man and his tremendous baggage to an up-country station, with his official blessing. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z He little thought Grey Bird and the 'up-country imp' were coming on the outside at a great rate. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z The writer was going up-country, he said, far into the interior, to do a little shooting, and some knocking about. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z My business prospered, so that within a few years I found myself in a position to realise my dream of taking a trip up-country. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z A somewhat assertive up-country trader, lately returned from the Ngami region, had just finished a highly-coloured narrative, in which a couple of lions had been easily vanquished. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z Strix bubo, the only but very common owl of the up-country, and one Otus of the low plain, are treated as birds of ill-omen. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Jack Ashton was cut up at his defeat, and it did not improve his temper when Willie remarked as he passed him in the paddock,— 'What about the "up-country imp" now?' Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z I think it’s a remnant of that infernal up-country fever which I can’t thoroughly shake off. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z It must be confessed, that, after his triumphant experience with Corry, Porter Hudson imagined himself to have quite taken the measure of up-country skill and science at that game. Winter Fun 2011-01-25T03:00:22.297Z My tale is simple enough, and after what has occurred—the finding of a stolen diamond and not an innocent stone from up-country—I cannot conceal from myself that Frank must be guilty. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z The house was furnished in accordance with the conventional type of up-country residencies, with commonplace splendour. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z One oft-repeated message: "The land is burning," a reference to the swidden fires up-country but also a clear warning to the urban élite. Thailand: Why the Reds Are in Revolt 2010-03-27T16:25:00Z Other things being equal the repast would have provided a grateful change from the hard fare of the journey up-country. The Great Mogul They had stopped a minute to speak with York Macpherson as they were on their way to that up-country Poser funeral. The Reclaimers We have just come up-country and I hear you are on your journey out I thought I should like just to step across and ask if there is anything we can do for you. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z That morning she had felt put out for a moment: Labuwangi, after Batavia, had depressed her with the tedium of an up-country capital. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z He'm naught but a foreigner from up-country, and wouldn't know to give we away. Beggars on Horseback She was thinking of much that she had missed in town by coming up-country in the height of the season; she was wishing herself back in Toorak. The Shadow of a Man I am going," she wrote home, "to a new tribe up-country, a fierce, cruel people, and every one tells me they will kill me. The White Queen of Okoyong A True Story of Adventure Heroism and Faith She rose from the kartel—like most up-country Boers she slept in her clothes—buttoned her bodice, and came to the fire. From Veldt Camp Fires 2011-12-01T03:00:21.397Z And the up-country town, after the mystic oppression under which it had lain cowering during those unforgettable weeks, came to life again, as though shaking off all its obsession. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Bendigo free to revenge himself had not entered into the scheme of the man from up-country, where the law was a less individual matter. Beggars on Horseback The poetic justice of it is that I 'read' with him, so to speak, with a view to these very bush bullies and up-country larrikins. The Shadow of a Man A more striking difference between this two-century-old settlement and the ones up-country was the presence of the two huge adobe churches which towered among the hovels, all the more imposing for the contrast. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois There was a man of the 2d Infantry whom I met at an up-country railway station. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel But a dark swirling tide continued to stir under the apparent calmness of their little up-country life. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z This little breathing space between the sea voyage and the start up-country doesn’t count in the scheme. An Unknown Lover You must get back to the Addo or trek right up-country for that.” Harley Greenoak's Charge In fact, we now and then take a turn at it ourselves when this beastly up-country fever strikes us. Haviland's Chum The effect of accepting Japan's views would be excellent for the individual who wanted to go up-country and make his money, but bad for the nation. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel Aloud she said— “I wonder when we shall be going up-country?” John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Dorothea Middleton is an angel of hospitality, but an up-country station has its limits even for a saint. An Unknown Lover But it was here that every instinctive faculty of grasp and perception implanted in the up-country man became keenly alert and awake. Harley Greenoak's Charge But the enduring courage, the bulldog tenacity of purpose, which characterise the true explorer or up-country adventurer, whatever his nationality, is to this man an ever present force. Haviland's Chum I forgot you didn't get much fish up-country. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel “Do they ride bikes much up-country—I think you said you were from up-country, did you not?” said Nidia, artlessly, with that quick lift of the eyelids. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising When we dropped anchor in the bay he found himself appointed to some place up-country. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance These two—the English baronet and the South African up-country man, had made acquaintance during the outward voyage, and had grown very friendly indeed. Harley Greenoak's Charge “Never that cursed up-country fever again?” he murmurs, to himself, in real alarm. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The size of the maidan takes the heart out of any one accustomed to the "gardens" of up-country, just as they say Newmarket Heath cows a horse accustomed to more a shut-in course. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel By the way, to go back to what I was saying a little while ago, you will probably not be coming up-country at all. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Reinforcements are being hurried up-country to Buller, besides extra guns, and they know very well that he is only getting everything ready before making another—and let us hope this time successful—attempt. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War I thought you up-country men never went in for making compliments.” Harley Greenoak's Charge I must have had a touch of my old enemy—up-country fever. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Even in February, the weather would, up-country, be called muggy and stifling, but Calcutta is convinced that it is her cold season. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel He might have volunteered considerable information for the benefit of the man who was going up-country, he suspected, for the first time. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising The Boers resisted, and hoisted their flag, but reinforcements were sent up-country, and in May, 1842, the whole of Natal was taken over as a British colony. With Rifle and Bayonet A Story of the Boer War Clad though she was in a plain gown of rough brown material, bought at some up-country store and fashioned by herself, the admirable curves of her straight, well-rounded figure could not be concealed. Tales of South Africa True, he has heard that many of the up-country Boers are a wild and lawless set, holding an Englishman in utter detestation. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt He looks like a scribe to the boot-heels, and, with his unvarying smile and regulated gesticulation, recalls memories of up-country courts. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel They had bidden him good-bye, she and her relative, in the front door of the hotel at Wynberg, cordially—and conventionally—mutually expressing the wish to meet again soon up-country. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising “And yet more than one fact I have actually known in my up-country experience would knock out anything I’ve ever heard, or read in fiction for sheer incredibility of coincidence.” The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising I was unable to do so at that time; but later, on my way up-country, I outspanned at Nooitgedacht, and stayed several nights. Tales of South Africa It was not much of a place to look at; and in its main features differed little, if at all, from any other up-country township. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt They will take up the old work as if they had merely been for a day’s shooting up-country, and their friends whom they relieve will take their bunks and sail away. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War There are few hotter places, and few more unhealthy ones, among our Indian up-country stations than Bellary, in the Madras Presidency, garrisoned in the year 1856 by Her Majesty’s 150th Regiment of Infantry. The Ruined Cities of Zululand Thornhill is a man with a large up-country experience, and I know of no better training for teaching a man to take things as they come.” The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising It was Christmas-time at the Cape, when many a man and woman of British blood, jaded by the sun and drought of an up-country life, flocks down to the sea. Tales of South Africa “He said he was a pal of yours, and had come up-country on purpose to find you.” In the Whirl of the Rising Another week, in fact, brought the consent of the doctor, whereupon active preparations for the trip up-country were commenced. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War “Up-country,” they would say, with a careless jerk of the finger, “up-country!” The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Was afraid you had started again on some up-country trip, and by Jove, there are one or two things I want your opinion about. A Frontier Mystery It was characteristic of that hardened up-country adventurer that nothing short of absolute necessity should be allowed to interfere with the recuperating powers of nature. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion He had bought it back—very much on the same terms—a few months previously, on his return to the old up-country life. In the Whirl of the Rising Inquiries which I made at Cape Coast Castle convinced me that he had been engaged on many occasions in running guns and ammunition to the coast, and sending them up-country. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War What would you say to going an up-country trip with me?” The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Really, I shall never believe again in you up-country men’s stories of roughing it.” A Frontier Mystery I am only an up-country trader’s daughter, who helps her father, up to her little best.” Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion Chance is the name of a very great god up-country, as you’ll find out if you stop out here long.” In the Whirl of the Rising Yes, I know that there is danger up-country, but then, Mr Pepson, it is not so great as to keep an Englishman away.” With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War “Stay on here and look around for a few days, or get away further up-country?” The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley “But there, you must excuse me filling the rôle of the up-country yarner.” A Frontier Mystery For the first, he, an old up-country man, resented the restrictions as to the killing of game that had come in with the British occupation of Zululand. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion That is a peculiarity of this up-country malaria. In the Whirl of the Rising What would you say to a trip up-country?” With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War “Going up-country, mister?” said the official, as, the examination over, he lit his pipe and strolled into the air again. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley That’s one of the advantages of the up-country or frontier life, you take a man as you find him and no make believe, or stiffness or ceremony. A Frontier Mystery He had known the hostess of the Nodwengu—herself the daughter of a fine old up-country trader and pioneer—ever since she was born. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion The countenance of both, darkened by sun and exposure, wore the same expression of blended repose and latent alertness which a roving up-country life seems invariably to produce. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland For even the men who had only recently landed, and who had marched directly up-country, had seen sufficient to convince them that it was high time that King Koffee and his barbarians were subjugated. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War It was wanted to shoot buck and birds during their trip further up-country. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley I was not guiltless myself in that line when I first went up-country. A Frontier Mystery They had been in correspondence together—had done business together—for quite a long time, and often had he speculated as to the up-country trader’s individual personality. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion The hard, reticent, self-reliant up-country trader was not the man to make a confidant of one whom he regarded as a mere callow youth. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland No one would have thought that this young fellow had been up-country in a responsible position, and that he had so recently had such a tussle with the natives. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War You are made of far better stuff than to slide into the mere knockabout, harum-scarum adventurer, as some of these up-country going chaps are only too ready to do, especially when they begin young. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley What do I, a prosaic trader in the Zulu, for all my experience of border and up-country matters, know about such things? A Frontier Mystery That was the sort of life her own soul hankered after, instead of being stuck away on a dismal up-country farm. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion He was far too experienced and resourceful an up-country man to lose his head in the smallest degree. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland I went up-country some weeks ago with my employers and some Fanti boatmen. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War During the months our friends had spent up-country, diplomatic relations between the Zulus and the British had become strained to a dangerous tension. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley Unless particularly desired, brown harness with brass mounts is the best—for India, at all events—for pony-harness, and it is this class of animal that is generally used in an up-country station. Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies The town itself was a great many miles from the nearest railway station; moreover, it was a dull little hole, with the limited ideas and pettifogging interests common to up-country townships. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion “There, that sounds like a tolerably tall up-country yarn,” he concluded, “but it’s hard solid fact for all that.” The Triumph of Hilary Blachland It is seldom we hear of such an escape, and it is fine to come across a young fellow who, alone up-country, has been able to hold his own so handsomely. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War By no means all fun has Gerard found that up-country trading trip. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley The ordinary two-wheeled pony-trap or dogcart, used in an up-country Indian station, is best varnished, not painted. Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies I looked in the direction indicated by his finger, my boy, and beheld the sloop-of-war Morpheus at anchor near a small inlet leading to the river from the up-country. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 But he was sharp enough to notice that at other times the subject of “up-country” was not a favourite one with Blachland. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Besides, the idea of taking part in a campaign fascinated him, and he longed to go up-country to Kumasi with the troops. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Fifty years ago the city was far away there to the south, and this house, miles and miles away up-country, was at the edge of a forest stretching down the hillside to the river. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations Just as the Jesuits won the wilderness of the up-country by martyr blood, so the Franciscans attacked the strongholds of paganism amid the pueblos of the South. Through Our Unknown Southwest "Have you heard any rumors about a Bulgarian raid up-country?" he asked. The Invaders Thoughts of fever, that dread bugbear of the up-country man, took unpleasant hold upon his mind. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland They would not be there long, being told off to work in gangs up-country, or assigned to the settlers as servants. When Ghost Meets Ghost So, having a chance for a little vacation, I jumped on board a steamer, crossed to Southampton, and biked up-country, doing these ruins on the way. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts Castanar, chief of the air patrol for the district, had waxed enthusiastic over the suppression of last spring’s revolutionists and the cowed state of up-country bandits. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 You and the creature that passed for Dillon up-country are both aliens. The Invaders The wandering up-country life had got into his system. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland "I mind what it was in my early days up-country," said the old woman. When Ghost Meets Ghost He had come aboard with a large cargo of Indian cigars, and was never without a long, black weed, bearing some tongue-staggering, up-country name, betwixt his lips. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 26, February 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Great rumours began to float out from the up-country. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia But these gentlemen have ... ah ... a special concern with that business up-country. The Invaders No. Now I’ve taken on that farm, I’m going to try my hobby, and see how many kinds of up-country animals I can keep there. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Australian up-country hotels are certainly not meant for rest. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Where Dicksie sat, struggling with her bounding pulse and holding Jim tightly in, no one from the ranch or, indeed, from the up-country could pass her unseen. Whispering Smith In the wild remote regions of the up-country there was much 'claim jumping.' The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia I saw the foam suit that creature wore up-country, when he wasn't in it. The Invaders The latter’s correspondence was full of Hilary, and what great times they were having together up-country. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland They settled down in a little up-country station. The Soul of a People He had some cronies with him from among his up-country following, and was introducing his new bridge foreman, Karg, afterward known as Flat Nose, and George Seagrue, the Montana cowboy. Whispering Smith Thus he obtained a rough registration of the men going to the up-country; but thousands passed Victoria altogether and went in by pack-train from Okanagan or rafted across from Puget Sound. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia The right bank of the river above and below the pool is for miles so thickly wooded that anglers prefer to pass up-country before unpacking their rods. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain He was a Natal man, and had been up-country, prospecting, for the last two or three years. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Only four out of the fifteen A.S.C. officers who left London on Monday last came up-country, and I was one of the four. War Letters of a Public-School Boy “If the right man should get busy with that bunch of horses Sinclair has got together, and organize those up-country fellows for mischief, wouldn’t it make things hum on the mountain division for a while?” Whispering Smith I had need of money to bribe a fool I could not waste time on, up-country. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Of new-chums, only artisans are absorbed into the city population as a rule; all others have to look to manual labour of some kind, and generally up-country, for a means of subsistence. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand You don’t want to go up-country again just yet. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland I want to go up-country, into some rather wild places, places where you couldn't possibly come to camp. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life We are only in Colombo for one night, and to-morrow we are going up-country to stay with a friend of mine, a tea-planter. Round the Wonderful World They actively campaigned for moving the courthouse to Alexandria, and overcame the opposition of the "up-country" residents by offering to provide a suitable lot and build a new courthouse in Alexandria. The Fairfax County Courthouse A farmer up-country, who says he has been into the "bush" after cattle, means that he has been into the forest, in contradistinction to his own cleared land, the settlement, or the open country. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand But that up-country fever isn’t fatal, I’ve heard, not if men take proper care of themselves. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland "No; he said he would be going up-country into a very wild place, but he would write when he got to the Cape." The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life In the up-country lakes and rivers it takes nothing, and those who may have seen its migrations will easily understand the reason. Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina Railroad switches lead to these warehouses, so that the coffee is brought to storage in the same cars in which it was originally loaded up-country. All About Coffee They will make slaves of us, and either set us to work on the fortifications or sell us to be taken up-country.” By Conduct and Courage A Story of the Days of Nelson There’s a sharp tinge in the air after sundown, which isn’t good for a man with up-country fever in his bones, as I was telling him just now. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland When I was at school up-country in Australia the mistress used to notice when we got restless, and take us for a day's camp into the bush. The Leader of the Lower School A Tale of School Life They come shouting in from Charleston, bound up-country. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 It is properly applied to the imported brand of "Two Seas," but is indiscriminately used by up-country folk for any coarse stick of tobacco. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia This summer was spent with my Aunt Gary at various pleasant and cool up-country places, where hills were, and brooks, and sweet air, and flowers, and where I might have found much to enjoy. Daisy “I thought an up-country man like you would turn up his nose at our hunting, Blachland,” said Bayfield as they rode along. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland I don't suppose your aunts would let you go up-country, would they? Betty Leicester A Story For Girls The missionaries try to teach the little ones, and at each up-country Mission Station there is a small school for Dyak boys. Children of Borneo One expedition, however, might be described, a visit paid to a neighbouring estate which had been advertised for sale, as giving a glimpse of a typical phase of up-country life. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India There was also in camp at this time a boy named To’ Mûda Long, who was the eldest son of one of the great up-country Chiefs. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula We might go up-country together, and I could show you some real wild life. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland You excuse me this time, but here's Jonathan considers it best to go off up-country looking for winter's wood, of all things! Betty Leicester A Story For Girls Many of these missionaries live up-country at some mission station far from the town. Children of Borneo "We won't go in for kicking like the up-country fellows, let's play like true Cornish lads." The Birthright Therefore, let us take the dark view of up-country life to start upon. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula Because of something that once happened to me up-country.” The Triumph of Hilary Blachland There were long reaches through the cool woods, and the road was always rising to a higher part of the country, veritable up-country, among the hills. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls It was the day I decided to go up-country. The Sign of the Spider He was going up-country, he told me, to inspect a timber concession recently acquired by the company that employed him. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Here was Millard, for example, a mature man of affairs, held to a scheme of life adopted almost by accident when he was but just tottering, callow, from his up-country nest. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York I suppose, though, you don’t hear much music up-country. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland It almost seemed as if up-country existed for the sake of its market town of Tideshead. Betty Leicester A Story For Girls The up-country man at that moment especially noticed that he did not. The Sign of the Spider Some of them went up-country and stayed there some time without being molested. Pan-Islam Levi had told the English captain that he was going up-country to visit one of his lady friends. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates We heard that a runner came in just now before we left Gwelba, with the news that an ammunition column and details are on their way up-country. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force The shad have never returned to the up-country. The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia A touch of the old up-country shivers, or something of the kind. The Sign of the Spider There should always be a definite understanding as to foreigners proceeding or residing up-country for any purpose. Pan-Islam Even in lonely up-country stations which contain only a few white residents, gymkhanas are often got up by officers who train and ride their own horses and ponies. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. London can never add arable acres to her suite, while only the destruction of the American people can prevent us from building ten up-country mills to every one which manufactures for her market. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 And a very good name too, for in any up-country town one has but to sing out "Bill" or "Jim" to have an answer from three-fourths of the male population. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Do you notice how all of these up-country going fellows shunt him—Wheeler, for instance? and Garway, who is at your hotel, never speaks to him. The Sign of the Spider It was from a little curved Japanese bridge, and the next morning we were to start up-country to my jungle laboratory. Edge of the Jungle Lands were allotted to them in the western woods, which soon became the most popular part of the province, the up-country population being overwhelmingly Scotch-Irish. An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America My poor boy was on his way home from an up-country station, on sick leave. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Rigby must indeed have been a "grincheau," as the French called him, for this same up-country gentleman said of Versailles: "Lovely surrounding country but palace and park badly designed." Royal Palaces and Parks of France They took refuge in practical topics; they talked of the up-country trip. The Sign of the Spider His speech was that which one hears only in the most up-country New England regions and among London small shopkeepers. Duffels That chap Harrington, for instance, just got in from two years up-country. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series No man of experience up-country in India will touch tinned stuff of that description. In Mesopotamia Mrs. Constance died, and in her will she left to Margaret her little up-country cottage and enough money to provide her an income for the rest of her life. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 And Hazon, in his quiet, thorough way, was very busy in fitting out these waggons, loading them with articles suitable for up-country trade, eke with munitions of sport, and, if need be, war. The Sign of the Spider When Ralph came home, of course, he might like a livelier place and they might move to town or up-country as he wished. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 They did not care to have the rich Seymour girls know of their connection with that queer old cousin of their father's who lived in that out-of-the-world spot up-country. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 I don't care if there is somebody else up-country. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Our business has slacked greatly, and is now mainly kept up by recent refugees from the up-country. Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868) That brute Stanninghame was going away up-country soon, he put it. The Sign of the Spider Are you contemplating an up-country jaunt; or what is in the wind?” Through Veld and Forest An African Story He had been away up-country for a year, broken shoulder, etc. The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy With a sort of mild interest in her, he reflected that her up-country beau would be very properly proud of her if he could see her there on that schooner's keel. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 For his episcopal palace, he takes a little cave in the chalk cliffs of the up-country river: arranges all matters therein, for bed and board, at small cost. Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens The dark, impassive face of the up-country man underwent no change. The Sign of the Spider I am certainly not contemplating an up-country expedition of any sort. Through Veld and Forest An African Story On Saturday last, an up-country woman attempted to commit suicide by laying herself across the rails. Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 He described it as a large up-country town, second only to Ballarat and Melbourne. A Boy's Voyage Round the World At this spot the up-country and down-country coaches met, and I resolved that I would get into whichever came in first, leaving it to destiny to settle. Mushrooms on the Moor Evidently the disturbance was not serious, as he was out at an early hour with Ned to investigate the place and learn the peculiarities of an up-country station in Australia. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent The train by which I was going to travel up-country was due at Umballa about midnight. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly They’ve been ugly at times—not my boys around here, but some of the far, up-country tribes—and I’ve been obliged to show them things. Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers Though my descriptions hitherto have, for the most part, related to up-country life, seasons, amusements, and such like, my principal concern, while living in Majorca, was with bank business and gold-buying. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Old Rosewarne, they say, had another teacher in his eye, and got her appointed—some up-country body. Shining Ferry In the wholesale shops there were great quantities of goods intended for up-country use. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent So much for report, which informed me I should find the American house here filled by noisy planters from the up-country and boisterous Mississippi boatmen. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. At one time it seemed possible that the tide of German settlement, which finally sought Pennsylvania and the up-country of the South, might flow into New York. The Frontier in American History Like most new up-country towns, it consists of one long street; and this one long street is situated in a deep hollow, close to a creek. A Boy's Voyage Round the World When he began to starve, he joined the safari of a Muscat trader, traveled up-country, returned to the coast sick with fever. Sacrifice Perhaps he'd been out and visited the men on his mines up-country.' Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales When Don Manuel Montuno, the late Governor of Mórong, came with his suite to stay at my up-country bungalow for a shooting expedition, I had a wing added in three days, perfectly roofed and finished. The Philippine Islands Charleston prospered as the up-country of the Carolinas grew. The Frontier in American History The other cousin remained in the colony, and is now a hanger-on about up-country stations. A Boy's Voyage Round the World They refugeed to a farmhouse upon the outskirts of a little up-country village. Plantation Sketches His chosen traveling companion an explorer was delayed up-country. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Right then, according to all appearances, the Comas business up-country was doing very well in the hands of the understrapper bosses. Joan of Arc of the North Woods The struggle between the men of the up-country and the men of the tide-water, made a large part of the domestic history of the "Old South." The Frontier in American History It is altogether the finest up-country place of the kind that I have seen. A Boy's Voyage Round the World When the evening was yet young, a red-faced, red-whiskered man, snow-shoes on his back and fresh from the up-country trail, came and warmed himself, listening with interest to the lively discussion. The Rainy Day Railroad War "Of course, she might get a job up-country, where people are not particular and only want a kind of servant to look after their children." Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa And I reckon that now you’re falling in love with the fool, even if you did come up-country to do something mean to him!” Joan of Arc of the North Woods The old tidewater aristocracy has surrendered to the up-country democrats. The Frontier in American History Big though it be, like most of these up-country towns, Ballarat originated in a rush. A Boy's Voyage Round the World Our drives from up-country are sometimes held up a whole season when a bad jam forms in dry times. The Rainy Day Railroad War On their arrival at Madras, Miss Tavistock’s early and dearest friend, who resided in the up-country, had commissioned an acquaintance to receive Miss Tavistock until they could make arrangements for her journey to the interior. Newton Forster The Merchant Service Therefore, he ventured into the presence of Mern with down-hunched shoulders under the sagging folds of a ready-made coat, bought from the pile in an up-country village. Joan of Arc of the North Woods This was well enough for the great planters who made their regular residence there for a part of each year; but it was a source of oppression to the up-country settlers, remote from the court. The Frontier in American History One little event arose out of this ball which may serve to illustrate the comparative freeness of up-country manners. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The alliance of the West and the up-country held together in spite of the untoward circumstances. Expansion and Conflict There were settlements in the southern up-country as far west as Fort Moore on the Savannah, as far as Camden and Charlottesburg, and beyond Hillsborough. Beginnings of the American People You’ll understand why I believe I can keep him hanging around here till you have nailed things to the cross up-country.” Joan of Arc of the North Woods This led to a long struggle between coast and interior, terminated only when the slave population passed across the fall line, and more nearly assimilated coast and up-country. The Frontier in American History In direct contrast to this case, I may mention a rather mysterious circumstance which occurred at an up-country bank, situated in a quartz-mining district. A Boy's Voyage Round the World A keen and able debater and an enthusiastic Southerner, a combination in himself of the up-country ideals and the low-country purposes, he had become the idol of South Carolina. Expansion and Conflict Like the Germans they pushed south into the Piedmont of Virginia, and along the Alleghany slope of the Shenandoah, and into the Southern up-country as far as the Savannah River. Beginnings of the American People This man has escaped from up-country somewhere—I don’t know the confounded place’s name. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris The interior later showed its opposition to the coast by the persistent contest against slavery, carried on in the up-country of Virginia, and North and South Carolina. The Frontier in American History Last night about settled me that we must go right up-country or through the woods, for I trod on a big snake, and felt it twissen round my leg. Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land In New York, Pennsylvania, and other Eastern States the corn and wheat output steadily declined between 1850 and 1860, while the up-country of the South failed to produce the foodstuffs needed by the planters. Expansion and Conflict Hundreds of tons of war material have been going up-country for years as ironmongery goods and machinery. A Dash from Diamond City It was to Archie Maine like a bad attack of the fever from which he had suffered when he first went up-country in the gunboat from Singapore. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris I was away up-country elephant hunting at the time, and I found him, some seventy miles this side of the Zambezi, in the last stages of exhaustion from starvation. The Adventures of Dick Maitland A Tale of Unknown Africa And thus Charlie wasted much of his time, and in the end found himself far more dissatisfied with himself than in the quiet monotony of his up-country duties. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch With the large majority of the up-country of the Middle States and South in favor of a tariff, even a high tariff, he promptly accepted the proposed revision. Expansion and Conflict Clothes undoubtedly exercise a great effect on some people, and Rona seemed to put away her backwoods manners with her up-country dresses. For the Sake of the School He had been sent up-country by the missionaries on business, and was returning through Kwang-ngan when he saw the anti-foreign placard. Chatterbox, 1905. He had learned in that time to become a first-rate rider, and a good shot with a pistol, accomplishments which would be of vital service when he was ordered to an up-country station. A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia Down in the silk-market a dealer was buying silk from an up-country native—a man from the Grass Jungle. Son of Power They made concessions, however, in the matter of representation and in the popular election of the governors, which tended to reconcile the up-country people. Expansion and Conflict Couldn't get one to stop up-country, where we were. For the Sake of the School I believe so—some years later," replied Senator Hammond dryly; "in fact, they were all moved out, and hurried into the up-country for safe-keeping. The Statesmen Snowbound There are one or two attached to every up-country station. A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia During a year, some two hundred thousand men, young and old and mostly from up-country, take up the work of rickshaw runners. Civilization Tales of the Orient It was, however, this up-country which had been the mainstay of the Jeffersonian party. Expansion and Conflict Well, I have known up-country folk before now to be scandalised by some things which we in the Duchy think innocent enough. The Mayor of Troy Knew, in fact, no more about a Constitution than did the up-country mountain men. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle The others had all been employed at up-country stations, and were well acquainted with the nature of the work before them. A Final Reckoning A Tale of Bush Life in Australia On that paper was to have been printed our new issue of ten per cent., convertible, you know, and secured on that up-country cotton, which Kirby Smith had above the Big Raft. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Senator Hayne was among the first to yield; George McDuffie, an up-country leader, next surrendered; finally most Southern members of the National House of Representatives took up the cry against the tariff and extreme nationalism. Expansion and Conflict "Guess you know most of these up-country folk," he said. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon We left the road and struck up-country towards Durmitor, along with a string of pack-horses laden with the Russian weapons which went with an armed escort. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle Harris increased the pace and they swept up-country along the divide at a steady lope. The Settling of the Sage Imagine a gigantic ash heap, a place where dust and rubbish have been cast for years outside some dry, derelict, God-forsaken up-country township. Letters from France After the dogs were settled and in good shape the ponies were collected and brought from up-country in batches. South with Scott I had only been a few days in Christchurch when I met a Mr. Butler whom I had once before seen up-country. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 On the road to Nikshitch we came up with the military wagons carrying weapons, mainly revolvers and sword bayonets up-country for distribution. Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle There was a fresh track, made this morning, going up-country alone. The Settling of the Sage She sat up straight and said it was much hotter than they had it this time of year up-country but nothing at all to complain of yet. Hilda A Story of Calcutta Those who could be spared were given leave here; some of us went up-country for a few days and had a chance to enjoy South African scenery. South with Scott We were introduced to many of the best up-country people, and a month was passed pleasantly visiting about to enable us to decide on what line we would take up as a commencement. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 I heard the news when I visited Algiers on my way to a post up-country at the edge of the desert. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories He saddled him and went up-country after the other horses. The Settling of the Sage I served a year up-country and then fell ill and had to go home on furlough. Hilda A Story of Calcutta You will have seen my letter to my mother, and heard how much better I am for the glorious air of Nubia and the high up-country. Letters from Egypt It was the most civilised experience I had had of up-country life since I left Highfield and was very enjoyable. Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 No, he was as proudly truthful as a Rajpoot, as frank and manly as a Goorkah, and as honest as an up-country Durwan. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics When Governor of the Cape Colony, he sent word up-country, by David Livingstone, that he would be glad of any manuscripts throwing light upon the Greeks and Romans in Africa. The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Yet Cornishmen, who are conservative creatures, still cling to their straight-handled scythes, although they are less convenient than those with curved handles in use up-country. Secret Bread Mutton he gets almost for the asking, and up-country almost without it. Town Life in Australia I took the first chance, Cap'n, while my brother has gone up-country, to come to tell you how much I appreciate your generous way of doing what I asked of you. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul This little messenger from the up-country had carried her message right into the heart of one woman, one who was accustomed to carry her impulses into action. The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder To those who had not tasted it before in the course of prospecting or up-country travelling where conditions are sometimes very hard, it was no more possible to swallow it than to eat sawdust. The Transvaal from Within A Private Record of Public Affairs You may go to up-country towns, and in whole streets you will see these yellow fellows, sitting there in their muslin dresses, where formerly there were English traders. A Winter Tour in South Africa The Mysoreans, being up-country men and agriculturists, were not likely even to have seen the sea until they became slaves of Angria. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India So, one day, Mr. Lane came home, and said he had let the other half to a family from up-country,—man and wife and little girl. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 I was raised up among the hills in Vermont, and I shall always be a real up-country woman if I live here a hundred years. Deephaven and Selected Stories & Sketches Nesbitt, though so young, was known through the up-country of Georgia as a young man of more than ordinary promise. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest No caravan ever starts from a port on the coast to go up-country, but there is a percentage of deserters in the first week. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Italy, on the other hand, had a new birth, and at this moment has a magnificent future, because Goths and Lombards did sweep in upon her with their up-country virtues and wilderness moralities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 The up-country races, physically more promising, lack the training. India, Old and New Men come from up-country with a big cheque to knock out—shearers and men like that, who live in the backblocks for months, hundreds of miles from hotels. Captivity Governor Mathews had purchased a home in this region; and being at this time the principal man in the up-country, attracted to his neighborhood the emigrants who began to come into the country. The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest So I came in contact with the up-country people as well as with the sailors and shipmasters of the other side of the business. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches I know of my own knowledge, Harlan, that you have been interested up-country. The Ramrodders A Novel To-morrow they would start up-country to some backwoods barony in the kingdom of cotton, and work till Christmas time. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel When they explained that this meant being Jack-of-all-trades on an up-country station, Marcella, in a spirit of sheer mischief, said that would suit Louis well. Captivity I am not pleased with the up-country, and would rather live in Bengal, for I cannot abide sandy plains and a deficiency of vegetation. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries In the morning the travellers arose with the sun, and after breakfast Tom Osby began methodically to break camp as though preparing for the return up-country. Heart's Desire "You may as well go back up-country and boss the Quedaws." The Ramrodders A Novel Both the Irish race and the intermingled Pennsylvania Dutch were prolific, and the up-country of Pennsylvania soon overflowed. The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana Here's two lumberjacks down from up-country, and honing to play. Copper Streak Trail The inn, the "Hearty Cow," was kept by people who were new to him—"foreigners, from up-country." The Golden Scarecrow Later she sat again on a revolving seat at Gentlemen's Furnishings, eagerly purchasing shirts, cost not exceeding one dollar each, for James Thompson, aged thirteen, of up-country. V. V.'s Eyes Spinney's name was presented by an up-country spellbinder who had copied logic, diction, and demagogic arguments from his chief. The Ramrodders A Novel Vera had told them that once, at an up-country station in India, he had stopped a mutiny in a native battery by laughing in the men's faces. The Tree of Heaven When Sybil at length travelled up-country with her husband the shearing season had already commenced. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories A curious figure, by way of contrast, is a fish-dealer from far up-country listening with eyes wide open to narratives that might startle Sinbad the Sailor.—Be it well with you, my brethren! Twice Told Tales She accepted an offer to travel with a small theatrical company who were going up-country. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy I was now in a small up-country town. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man No," he murmured presently, "I haven't time to motor up-country forty or fifty miles and place the call in some town where we are not known. Kindred of the Dust "How are we to get any nearer if I'm up-country and you're here?" he said. Rosa Mundi and Other Stories "I thought some of my up-country negro farmers were barbaric—especially when I came across some voodooism, but now I see I didn't know what barbarism meant." The Boy With the U.S. Census E. was now away up-country with a circus, but was expected down any time. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy On their arrival at Madras, Miss Tavistock's early and dearest friend, who resided in the up-country, had commissioned an acquaintance to receive Miss Tavistock until they could make arrangements for her journey to the interior. Newton Forster Andrew Carson, like his nephew, "Kit," was of an adventurous disposition, and was the bearer of dispatches from the commanding officers in the up-country to those in South Carolina. Sketches of Western North Carolina, Historical and Biographical Good morning!" said the soldier amiably, with an up-country twang in his voice, "Good-morning, my pretty dears! The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales When the up-country people began to claim a voice in the government, long since due to their numbers, the planters, of course, opposed their demand. Famous Americans of Recent Times Next, an excuse for marching up-country, at the head of all these forces, was found in the need of suppressing the Pisidians. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval History Being a Purdahnashin she was of course closely veiled, and all that we were permitted to see was a diminutive figure, looking exactly like any ordinary up-country woman. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century "What other object should white men have up-country in Africa?" said Clay. A Master of Fortune Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle Oh, you don't know what some of those up-country Pennsylvanians would do. The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions, Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient Events like this led to the admission of members from the up-country; and Patrick Calhoun was the first to represent that section in the Legislature. Famous Americans of Recent Times You are living at one of the up-country stations, where the freer air of the jungle imparts to babes and sucklings a voracious appetite. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 05, March, 1858 I then left Calcutta for a tour up-country as stated on page 28, and the work was temporarily suspended. Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century I was up-country when you came along last with your bride. The Top of the World The guard—who was an up-country man—treated this laugh with contempt, and blew his whistle sharply. The Delectable Duchy Meanwhile it was observed that slave labor was driving out of the South the white man of small means, and antagonism between the men of the "up-country" and the seaboard capitalists was brewing. A Social History of the American Negro Being a History of the Negro Problem in the United States. Including A History and Study of the Republic of Liberia The narrow streets are blocked with the wains bringing down, in boxes of every shape and size, the up-country rough leaf. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) It was on a train journey up-country from Madras, some twelve years ago, that I first met Dr. Paru. Lighted to Lighten: the Hope of India The gentry were building handsome houses, and their amusements and occupations were those of the up-country planters of the seaboard. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 By degrees most of the worst characters fled to the Cherokees, or joined the British as their forces approached the up-country. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 The backwoodsmen, the men of the up-country, were, as a whole, ardent adherents of the patriot or American side. The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 An up-country proverb says, 'She was bidden to the wedding and set down to grind corn.' Letters of Travel (1892-1913) The bushmen up-country shaved regularly every Sunday morning, but never during the week for anything less than a ball. My Brilliant Career It was unsuccessful at first; but later, catching a glimpse of Elinor at the piano, and another of Penelope inducting an up-country legislator into the mysteries of social small-talk, he breathed freer. The Grafters With every chance to rise, these people remained mere squalid cumberers of the earth's surface, a rank, up-country growth, containing within itself the seeds of vicious, idle pauperism, and semi-criminality. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 "Well, it's a dam' shame that sixty-five men tharr in Sumter should make such an expense to the State," declared a stout, blonde young rifleman, speaking with a burr which proclaimed him from the up-country. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 You are, however, I understand, to be down here New Year's day, to which time, for the special accommodation of the up-country members, I presume the council, as it is said, has adjourned. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It may interest the up-country Bar in India. American Notes VII Levi had told the English captain that he was going up-country to visit one of his lady friends. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main These five stations were held by backwoodsmen of the usual Kentucky stamp, from the up-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and North Carolina. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 The good old naval surgeon there ordered me to start off for this high ‘up-country’ district, and arranged my departure for the first possible day. Letters from the Cape Whereupon he rushed off up-country, and fell in, when nearly starved, with our caravan of men, who were bringing us our annual supply of goods, and was brought on here. Allan Quatermain He mooned disconsolately about Almayer's courtyard, watching from afar, with uninterested eyes, the up-country canoes discharging guttah or rattans, and loading rice or European goods on the little wharf of Lingard & Co. An Outcast of the Islands It was the ordinary pattern of up-country store—a bar in one corner with an array of bottles, and all round the walls tins of canned food and the odds and ends of trade. Prester John One's the editor of a pro-Ally up-country paper in the Argentine. Mr. Standfast When I had learned my work the Instructor gave me a handful—and they were a handful!—-of Gauls and Iberians to polish up till they were sent to their stations up-country. Puck of Pook's Hill You talk about a Brazilian cat to an up-country Indian, and see him get the jumps. Tales of Terror and Mystery The bronze medal for mathematics was considered as good as won by a fat, funny little up-country boy with a bumpy forehead and a patched coat. Anne of Green Gables We worked our passages out to the Cape and made our way up-country to Matabeleland. The Yellow Streak He had returned from a long trip up-country, where he had been reporting on damaged rolling- stock, as far away as Rhodesia. Traffics and Discoveries Well, I painted him from an up-country moonshiner. The Under Dog Not long ago there arrived in an up-country station a box containing a wedding trousseau, which a lady had ordered out from home as the result of an engagement between her and a gallant warrior. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places They were going up-country to join the other Englishman far away—near the mountains. With Edged Tools The prow, which is solid, has a flat terrace, on which, for the king's up-country excursions, they mount a small field-piece, a nine or a twelve pounder. The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok It was the good fortune of the writer of this sketch to find himself, some years ago, travelling through the up-country districts of Natal, in the company of certain high officials of the English Government. Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal We landed at Rangoon about May 1st, went by rail to Mandalay, and from there travelled slowly up-country by construction-train to the Mogung Gorge. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories That day about noon they came in sight of a little up-country town, which the prisoners soon learned was known as Santa Rosilla. Jack North's Treasure Hunt Or, Daring Adventures in South America That up-country lout was surprised, I can tell you! The Home and the World Prior to 1830 the mass of pioneer colonists in most of the Mississippi Valley had been contributed by the up-country of the south. The French in the Heart of America I lately met an old schoolmate of mine up-country. While the Billy Boils They love 'em even as union shearers on strike love blacklegs brought up-country to take their places. Children of the Bush He was an intelligent man, but rather unlicked, and was the butt of the younger clerks, who delighted in mocking his uncouth up-country dialect. Tales of Bengal The French Factories up-country to be left in the hands of their present chiefs. Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 Nobody seemed to have any tents when they left the station for the districts, nor to take any bedding when they went on tour or up-country. Snake and Sword A Novel He had a small selection, where he kept his family, and used to carry from the railway terminus to the stations up-country. While the Billy Boils Tom—steady-going old Tom—clearing or fencing or dam-sinking up-country, hides his tools in the scrub and gets his horse and rides home. Children of the Bush The Lakhimpur bailiff, who was sitting on the verandah, also laid hands on Rámdá and, with the aid of two up-country servants, he was dragged to the police station, too bewildered to resist. Tales of Bengal After the capture of Chandernagore the English Council called on the Nawab to surrender the French up-country Factories to them. Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 And then one day very suddenly he roused himself and told me that he had heard of a job up-country and was going to it. The Bars of Iron Jack was going to stay with Joe at the Coffee Palace for a few weeks, and then go back up-country, he told me. While the Billy Boils The girl's people left the district and squatted on new stations up-country. Children of the Bush They were far up-country when the sun rose. The Everlasting Whisper They proceeded to communicate with Pondicherry, their up-country Factories, and the native Government; they also gave assistance to French soldiers who had escaped from Chandernagore. Three Frenchmen in Bengal The Commercial Ruin of the French Settlements in 1757 He could begin an up-country trip at once if he wished. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment He says his one great regret is that he wasn't found to be of unsound mind before he went up-country. While the Billy Boils He went up-country and knocked about in the north-west for a year or two. Children of the Bush Livingstone had so loaded himself with parcels for stations up-country, and his wagon and team were so inferior, that he did not reach Kuruman until September. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 "It is too dangerous to come up-country," answered the traders. White Queen of the Cannibals: the Story of Mary Slessor Jest as soon as Tibbs comes with the up-country mail, an' I get the kernel's letters. Frank on the Lower Mississippi He did very well at his trade in the city, years ago, until he began to think that he could do better up-country. While the Billy Boils He got a billet in the Civil Service up-country. Children of the Bush Alcott represented to me a fairy element in the up-country region in which I so often saw him. Memories of Hawthorne By midnight the settlements and farmhouses of the up-country were abandoned; almost the entire district from Galata to Fanar on the Black Sea was reduced to ashes. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Crossing the road running from Sidon along the coast to the up-country, they came to the foothills of the mountain, all without habitation. The Prince of India — Volume 01 The local push had evidently turned up to see off some fair enslavers from the city, who had been up-country for the cheque season, now over. While the Billy Boils I do not advise people to make large purchases of elegancies for a colonial life, but a few pretty little trifles will greatly improve the look of even a New Zealand up-country drawing-room. Station Life in New Zealand I think I have mentioned before that the wooden houses in New Zealand, especially those roughly put together up-country, are by no means weather-tight. Station Amusements in New Zealand On the next steamer a surveying party with complete camping-equipment arrived in Sequoia, purchased a wagon and two horses, piled their dunnage into the wagon, and disappeared up-country. The Valley of the Giants At dusk of a day within that week a trapper brought word of a hundred canoes on the river a day's journey up-country, laden with packs of winter beaver, and bound for the post. The Maid of the Whispering Hills If I should happen to know of four important individuals somewhere up-country, and massacres should break out after you had started, I could supply our ambassador with something good to work on. The Eye of Zeitoon I served a year up-country, and then fell ill and had to go home on furlough. The Path of a Star It is difficult to realise how completely cut off from the society of his kind a New Zealand up-country shepherd is, especially at an out-station like this. Station Amusements in New Zealand Mr. Watson"—I did not like lying, but I could not but feel for her; she had already lost her father—"Mr. Watson has gone on a trip up-country—with Jerome. The Blind Spot I could see she was registering a mental determination to go straight up-country the moment she landed. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose If we found her we could hardly carry her off up-country if there were any safer course. The Eye of Zeitoon She sat up straight, and said it was much hotter than they had it this time of year up-country, but nothing at all to complain of yet. The Path of a Star Now-a-days I hear that wages are somewhat lower, but the sums I have named were the average figures of six or seven years ago, especially "up-country." Station Amusements in New Zealand The boys have paid my fare up-country, and so I ran about to carry the gospel of the free water. The Landloper It was out of town just then, up-country somewhere, billabonging in true bush-whacker style, but was expected to return in a day or two, when it would be at our service. We of the Never-Never Spill it!" urged Will. "—should be up-country, and I knew it for a fact, but did not know your precise whereabouts, I'd have a grown excuse for raising most particular old Harry! The Eye of Zeitoon The up-country cracker gives more attention to farming, inhabits what's known as the Cherokee country and its vicinity, and is designated by the sobriquet of "wire-grass man." would be of Greek. Manuel Pereira An up-country horse knows perfectly well the only sound spots in a swamp; or the only sound part of a creek's banks. Station Amusements in New Zealand Perhaps I ought to explain that we hadn't come up to the up-country looking for big game. Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy They lived right up-country, where there were no schools. Australia Felix Meanwhile I pitched my tent under some shady palms near the gharri line, and busied myself in exploring the island and in procuring the stores and the outfit necessary for a lengthy sojourn up-country. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures Whereas Laura's box had gone by van: for she and Pin, who was in Melbourne on a visit, were to spend a couple of days at Godmother's before starting up-country. The Getting of Wisdom The up-country Democrats had not yet fallen under Tammany sway, and were on the point of developing a big country political boss in the shape of David B. Hill. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography They had met up-country in India, and had hunted, and Maurice had saved the Englishman's life. The Puppet Crown The visitors from up-country paused to listen to a brass band that played outside a horse-auction mart; to watch the shooting in a rifle-gallery. Australia Felix A good warm overcoat will be much appreciated up-country in the cool of the evenings, and a light mackintosh for wet weather ought also to be included. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures Once, in the innocence of her heart, Laura had let the cat out of the bag that an uncle of hers lived in the up-country township to which Mary belonged. The Getting of Wisdom I would answer, Nothing very brilliant, still, they may be pretty sure of getting a shepherd's billet somewhere up-country, if they are known to be trustworthy. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement He sat in the train on his way up-country, and from the carriage window watched farms and meadows and tree-lined roads slide past. The Great Hunger The disaffected politicians of the up-country, who wanted to be cared for in the reconstruction, saw in the organization a means of dislodging from power the political leaders of the low country. The Sequel of Appomattox : a chronicle of the reunion of the states "I thought you up-country fellows were better sports." The Four Million Tilly came from up-country and her thoughts leapt fearfully to scorpions and tarantulas. The Getting of Wisdom I had two cadets with me, and must explain that a cadet means a young fellow who has lately come out, and who wants to see a little of up-country life. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement She had gone out and nursed him back to half his robust health, and, at twenty-eight, taken up life with him on an up-country farm in Cape Colony. Saint's Progress For now since the Flaming Sword hath come, there is no need for haste; nay, we cannot depart till they have gone up-country. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men From his dress and bearing we took him at first for an up-country Mahomedan, but we were puzzled as we heard him talk. The Hungry Stones and Other Stories Hence, when speech day was over, instead of setting out on an up-country railway journey, Laura, under the escort of Miss Snodgrass, went on board one of the steamers that ploughed the Bay. The Getting of Wisdom "The leader might have been Gentleman George, from up-country," interposed a passenger. Snow-Bound at Eagle's Instead, he was at once ordered up-country, where at a one-troop post he administered the affairs of a somewhat hectic province, and under the guidance of the local constabulary chased will-o'-the-wisp brigands. The Lost Road The rough, dangerous up-country work suited him, and the time passed swiftly. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green I shall be up-country for about a month. A Millionaire of Yesterday Throughout the day she continued to receive hourly reports from Denver, who always brought with him four or five honest cowpunchers from up-country to listen to the strange tale she unfolded to them. Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West She was a fine, handsome girl, the orphan daughter of up-country gentle-folks, who had died when she was eighteen, leaving her alone in the world and penniless. Story of Waitstill Baxter “My husband was fifty miles up-country, talking sense, or what he imagined to be sense, to a village community that fancied one of their leading men was a were-tiger.” The Toys of Peace, and other papers It is many years ago now; I was a girl of fifteen, and I went to visit in a small up-country town. Dream Life and Real Life; a little African story It was also strange, he sitting there in that sloot in that up-country plain!—strange as the fantastic, changing shapes in a summer cloud. The Story of an African Farm, a novel I could cut off to sea, or get a job up-country, or—" Suddenly he smiled at Linda and said in a changed voice, as if he were confiding a secret, "Weak... weak. The Garden Party and Other Stories "Isn't he awful to speak that way about Sunday!" said the up-country bride. Lady Baltimore It was the regular up-country village, with a public-house, a store, a pound, and a blacksmith's shop. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields But it seems he had been hurt before up-country—by a horse. Within the Tides "Does he want them for his horse's rubbed back?" asked Gregory, new to up-country life. The Story of an African Farm, a novel But he remembered his wife and children, his unfinished book, the ten thousand rolling acres of the up-country ranch he loved so well. The Night-Born At this confession of mine the up-country bride became extraordinarily arch on the subject of the well-known hospitality of steam yachts, and for this I was honestly grateful to her; but Juno brooded still. Lady Baltimore She thought—she was that simple—that we were up-country squatters from some far-back place, or overseers. Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields Waifs and strays from home, from up-country, from the Pacific. Within the Tides "An up-country girl will not deny that, anyhow!" Lady Baltimore Yes, that was light, a good bright light shed on the matter; but a still more brilliant beam was cast by the up-country bride when I came into the dining-room. Lady Baltimore "Have they apologized yet?" inquired the male honeymooner from the up-country. Lady Baltimore "Wasn't it perfectly elegant!" exclaimed the up-country bride. Lady Baltimore They were, as the up-country bride would have put it, "graciously accepted." Lady Baltimore So I continued to ponder quite uselessly, until the up-country bride aroused me. Lady Baltimore |
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