 I have never found any intellectual excitement any more intense than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of these old women at her baking or butter making. I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt . ....  The Women who Make Our Novels - Pagina 258door Grant Martin Overton - 1918 - 393 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Howard Washington Odum - 1927 - 678 pagina’s
...river bottoms, the pale sandy tilth of the uplands, and the red clays. . . ." And later she says, " I have never found any intellectual excitement more...these pioneer women at her baking or butter-making. . . ." Or another: "He knew the roughest work of the mountain farms, f1shed in glacial lakes, trudged... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1983 - 462 pagina’s
...the state in which, years later, she wrote their histories. Later, she told the Philadelphia Record, "I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement: I always felt . . . as if I had actually got inside another person's skin. If one begins that early, it is the story of the man-eating... | |
 | James Woodress - 1989 - 654 pagina’s
...intellectual excitement any more intense than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of these old women at her baking or buttermaking. I used to ride...unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt . . . as if I had actually got inside another person's skin." When the old farm women began dying off, she wrote... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1997 - 438 pagina’s
...real feeling of an older world across the sea. ... I have never found any intellectual excitement any more intense than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of those old women at her baking or butter making. I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state... | |
 | Willa Cather - 1999 - 484 pagina’s
...never found any intellectual excitement any more intense," she recalled to an interviewer in 1913, "than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of those old farm women. I used to ride home in the most unreasonable state of excitement; I always felt... | |
 | Judith M. Fertig - 2001 - 270 pagina’s
...clean tea towel and dust the towel with flour. Shape the never found any intellectual excitement any more intense than I used to feel when I spent a morning with one of those old women at her baking or butter making," Cather wrote in 1913, "as if I had actually got inside... | |
 | L. Brent Bohlke, Sharon Hoover - 2002 - 256 pagina’s
...fond of some of the immigrants, particularly the old women, who used to tell me of their home country. I have never found any intellectual excitement more...morning with one of these pioneer women at her baking or butter making. I used to ride home in the most unusual state of excitement." After being graduated... | |
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