Think of the old Mossbackbeing a progressive, but that's my party and Jane's.
Think of the old Mossback being a progressive thing like that!
Isn't that old mossback a treat for the sight of gods and men?
Cousin Martha is completely lovely, and the Mossbackgets his beauty from her.
And I record the fact that I wanted to go home with Sallie and Cousin Martha and the babies and--and live under the roof of the Mossback forever.
But, just as suddenly, a vision came into my mind of the long table across the road at Widegables, with the Mossback seated at one end with only two or three of his charges stretched along the empty sides to keep him company.
The mossback is the man who has either misread the signs of the times, or who has not possessed the speed demanded in the two-minute class.
The mossbackcannot win, because he prefers a flintlock to a Mauser.
I also have sympathy for the mossback particularly because he is the man that needs attention.
The mossback sees perhaps clearly enough these changes, but he does not understand their meaning, nor does he know how to meet them.
They kept the staid, mossbackcitizen awake in the afternoons and he did not like it.
In the '80s, however, a new element had been attracted, which was dissatisfied with the mossback order of things.
Then again, perhaps you noticed that the old mossback headed downstream; and so the chances are the fish might be scared away for some distance.
And that mossback 'gator, as Tony always called an old fellow, was certainly worked up into a rage which might result in his attacking the struggling boy, despite all his wild floundering and splashing.
I'm going to fish and hunt and lie in the shade and swap yarns with mossback moonshiners.
He had stopped chewing when the door opened, and now he lifted his forepaws and sat half-erect, his yellow teeth showing between his parted lips, and his little eyes staring at the lamp which the mossback carried.
The mossback threw a stick of stove-wood at him, and he lumbered clumsily away across the snow.
At any rate he looked so lonesome and forlorn that the mossback felt a little thrill of pity for him, and decided not to kill him after all, but to drive him away again.
Again the mossback appeared in the doorway, shivering a little in his night-shirt.
Next morning the mossback and his boys threw that calf down on the ground and tied his feet to a stump, and three of them sat on him while a fourth pulled the quills from his nose with a pair of pincers.
Once, when he had ventured a little too close to the house, and was making an unusual racket with his teeth, the mossback came to the door and fired a shotgun at him, cutting off several of his quills.
The mossback was wide awake now, and he muttered something about "another of those pesky porkies.
Boys," said he, "the old mossbackwho owns that dam has come up here loaded to scatter.
It's a pity that old mossback had to put in a mill.
That old mossback Reed was right on deck with his rope," remarked Johnny Simms.
A fine bunch of whitewater birlers we'd look if we got hung up by an old mossbackin a plug hat.
