Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
Augustus Baldwin Longstreetwas an American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist, known for his book Georgia Scenes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth22 September 1790
CountryUnited States of America
fear moving home
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 negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
admitted best county days georgia hands lived means men republic younger
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; which, in the Georgia vocabulary, means they could flog any other two men in the county.
fighting gestures littles
Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
horse loss fire
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.