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" The men arranged themselves on one side of the room, and the women on the other. "
Notions of the Americans - Page 249
by James Fenimore Cooper - 1835
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Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor, Volume 2

James Fenimore Cooper - United States - 1828 - 530 pages
...On the contrary, it was quite a matter of grave preparation. The congregation (the Shakers) entered the meeting by different doors at the same time, the...When silence was obtained, after the movement of the entrie, the whole group were formed in regular lines, and commenced singing certain spiritual songs...
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Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor, Volume 1

James Fenimore Cooper - United States - 1828 - 990 pages
...elders of the two sexes leading the advance, and one following the other in what is called single tile. The men arranged themselves on one side of the room,...after the movement of the entree, the whole group were formed in regular lines, and commenced singing certain spiritual songs of their own composition...
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The Polar star, being a continuation of 'The Extractor', of ..., Volume 4

1830 - 436 pages
...however, were rigid Methodists, and so of course were their visiters. Hence the whole company sat, the men on one side of the room and the women on the other, still, formal, and whispering, till a Bible was produced, out of which they read and then sang some...
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Travels and Researches in Caffraria: Describing the Character, Customs and ...

Stephen Kay - Cape Province (South Africa) - 1833 - 550 pages
...wraps his mantle closely round him, so as to appear as decent as possible. The men take their places on one side of the room, and the women on the other, while the children fill up the aisles and spaces between. All being seated, either upon low benches...
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Travels and Researches in Caffraria: Describing the Character, Customs, and ...

Stephen Kay - Indigenous peoples - 1834 - 468 pages
...wraps his mantle closely round him, so as to appear as decent as possible. The men take their places on one side of the room, and the women on the other, while the children fill up the aisles and spaces between. All being seated, either upon lo* benches...
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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 5

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1835 - 586 pages
...that she produced her work, sewed up at the bottom, like a meal bag. In company, the men all gather on one side of the room, and the women on the other. There they stand, grinning and making faces at each other ; so that there can never pass between the...
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Notions of the Americans: Picked Up by a Travelling Bachelor, Volume 2

James Fenimore Cooper - United States - 1838 - 382 pages
...On the contrary, it was quite a matter of grave preparation. The congregation (the Shakers) entered the meeting by different doors at the same time, the...singing certain spiritual songs of their own composition (1 believe) to lively tunes, and with a most villanous nasal cadency. These songs were accompanied...
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Connecticut Common School Journal and Annals of Education, Volumes 1-4

Henry Barnard - Education - 1839 - 1066 pages
...intelligently and agreeably on these topics, you would see, in a small social party, the men talking politics on one side of the room, and the women on the other, discussing their domestics, their kitchen affairs, or talking over the fashions, or setting their heads...
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A Cure for Scandal: Or, Detraction Displayed : as Exhibited by Gossips ...

Amelia Opie - Characters and characteristics - 1839 - 220 pages
...a large circle in an English drawing-room, exhibiting, as it usually does, the men sitting together on one side of the room, and the women on the other, was wisely broken into groups of various sizes ; nor, in London meetings for the purpose of conversation,...
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Means and Ends, Or, Self-training

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Conduct of life - 1839 - 290 pages
...and agreeably on these topics, you would see, in a small social party, the men talking party politics on one side of the room, and the women on the other, discussing their domestics, their kitchen affairs, or talking over the fashions, or setting their heads...
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