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11 quotes by Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Born (1790-09-22)September 22, 1790 Augusta, Georgia Died July 9, 1870(1870-07-09) (aged 79) Oxford, Mississippi Occupation Lawyer, minister, educator, humorist Nationality American Period 1833 - 1864 Genre Southern humor Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (September 22, 1790 - July 9, 1870) was an American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist, known for his book Georgia Scenes.
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Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther... →

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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by... →

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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not... →

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But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of... →

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It is said that a hundred gamecocks will live in perfect harmony together it you do not put a hen with them; and so it would have been with Billy and... →

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In the younger days of the Republic there lived in the county of - two men, who were admitted on all hands to be the very best men In the county;... →

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The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The... →

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All the knowing ones were consulted as to the issue, and they all agreed, to a man, in one of two opinions: either that Bob would flog Billy, or... →

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During the session of the Supreme Court, in the village of -, about three weeks ago, when a number of people were collected in the principal street... →

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I looked, and saw that Bob had entirely lost his left ear, and a large piece from his left cheek. His right eye was a little discoloured, and the... →

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There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as fast as the next man's... →

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