These birds, having been some time previous bereft of the weapons nature designed for their defence, are now fornished with gaffles, or artificial spurs, each of which is a polished steel blade , about three inches in length, half an inch wide at the base, curved slightly upwards, sharp at the point and on the upper edge, and firmly fastened to the leg by means of a clasp.

The music I liked was very ghetto and gritty. It was the stuff that didn't really cross over much, but spoke to a roots black experience. People don't understand this now, but the falsetto, crying singers were the most ghetto back then.

A division of the body into parts has historically operated to specularize the body for economic and social purposes, developing, as discussed in relation to Arcade, by the nineteenth century as a visible economy of race, an economy of parts that enables the viewer to ascertain the subject's rightful place in a racial chain of being (Wiegman 21).

In a day of two, however, he began to take heart of grace, and to find himself oftener at Mary's side, with something to say, and more to look.