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A Very Rotund, Cautious Person of German Extraction
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N.C. Wyeth
(American, 1882 - 1945)
A Very Rotund, Cautious Person of German Extraction
1907
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"There ain't a person in these here United States that kin slide a flatiron over dry-goods the way my Pete kin"
N.C. Wyeth
1905
It was after this attack that the High Command published to the German army: "The moral effect of our own gunfire can not seriously impede the advance of the American Infantry."
N.C. Wyeth
1930
It was a short, very stout, and very black negro who stood at attention before Captain Blaise.
N.C. Wyeth
1911
A German Tourist in Tyrol - like this
Jessie Willcox Smith
1933-1935
The Lovers
Her foot is on the very lintel of the church, and yet he bars the way--
N.C. Wyeth
1922
The Three Knights
"It is very fitting," said Chandos, "that we should be companions, Nigel, for since you have tied up one of your eyes, we have but a pair between us."
N.C. Wyeth
1922
That night a thankful father and mother knelt down beside the bed where their only daughter lay in a healthful sleep. A little girl had come back to her parents from the very gates of death. The Galilean stars looked down and smiled their benediction
N.C. Wyeth
1929
"All this while I sat upon the ground, very much terrified and dejected"
N.C. Wyeth
1920
And so the man of books and the Irish girl, that morning, found the bond of their friendship--a friendship that was to be to them, all the years of their lives, a very beautiful thing
N.C. Wyeth
1925
It was not signed. I read it slowly, because I was not very good at reading, and turned my eyes west-where my mother had gone
N.C. Wyeth
1921
I had many friends among professional thieves. From the very first I had been "right"
N.C. Wyeth
ca. 1913
"For a mile, or thereabouts, my raft went very well--"
N.C. Wyeth
1920