"I never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then."
— Brown, Charles Brockden (1771-1810)
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
Hugh Maxwell
Date
1799
Metaphor
"I never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then."
Metaphor in Context
Pshaw! He could not live. The sooner dead the better for him; as well for us. Did you mark how he eyed us, when we carried away his wife and daughter? I never cried in my life, sine I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then.
(Part I, chapter 15, p. 357)
(Part I, chapter 15, p. 357)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown, Three Gothic Novels. New York: Library of America,1998.
Date of Entry
07/18/2003
Date of Review
06/26/2007
