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By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Attic
Bay
Built
Chimney
Colonies
Extending
First
Foot
Frequently
Further
Houses
Log
More
Out
Over
Replaced
Second
Sometimes
Still
Stories
Story
Two
Were
Which
Wooden
Year
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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Bring
Every
Expected
Feast
Friends
His
Home
Indies
Return
Sailed
Turtle
Voyage
West
Who
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Few of the early houses in New England were painted, or colored, as it was called, either without or within. Painters do not appear in any of the early lists of workmen.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Any
Appear
Colored
Early
Either
England
Few
Houses
Lists
New
New England
Painted
Painters
Were
Within
Without
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From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle for life.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Baby
Bleak
England
Eyes
Had
He
His
Hour
Life
New
New England
Opened
Puritan
Struggle
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In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Adult
Any
Befall
Colonies
Condition
Could
Days
Early
Early Days
Embarrassing
England
Greater
Ill
More
New
New England
Puritan
Temporal
Than
Unmarried
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In the early New England meeting-houses the seats were long, narrow, uncomfortable benches, which were made of simple, rough, hand-riven planks placed on legs like milking-stools.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Bench
Early
England
Legs
Like
Long
Made
Narrow
New
New England
Placed
Rough
Seats
Simple
Uncomfortable
Were
Which
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Astrology
Believed
Century
Chiefly
Christian
Crops
Cut
Governed
Had
Health
His
Influences
Life
Medicine
Occult
Only
Planetary
Science
Some
Still
Trusting
Which
Wholly
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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Colonial
Colonists
Contemporary
Definite
Easy
Estates
Gain
Houses
Notion
Reliable
Source
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It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Bible
Distress
Family
Hopes
Many
Old
Read
Records
Suffering
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It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the planting and harvesting, and game and fish for the least expenditure of labor, no man would long serve for another, and any system of reliable service indoors or afield must fail.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Another
Any
Asking
Corn
Country
Cutting
Evident
Expenditure
Fail
Fish
Fuel
Game
Had
Indoors
Labor
Land
Least
Long
Man
Must
Plainly
Planting
Reliable
Serve
Service
System
Where
Would
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One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often before any house of God was builded, the devil got his restraining engine.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Any
Before
Building
Community
Devil
Earliest
Engine
England
Every
First
God
Got
His
House
Institutions
New
New England
Often
Pair
Public
Stocks
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Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Ceremonies
Each
Forefathers
Forms
Fully
Great
More
Nothing
Our
Person
Persons
Position
Public
Puritan
Regard
Seat
Should
Shown
Sit
Than
Though
Wealth
Were
Which
Worship
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Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Beauty
Behind
Cherished
Dignified
Eyes
Forward
Front
Full
Gardens
Gracious
Houses
Lie
Life
Passing
Present
Public
Reserved
Serene
Strangers
Treasures
View
Walls
You
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Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for being sunken other than a whim or increase in costliness.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Architect
Being
Even
Gardens
Increase
Intelligent
Laid
Landscape
Other
Out
Reason
Should
Supervision
Than
Then
Whim
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The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far too plentiful, and were gagged for that annoying and irritating habit.
~ Alice Morse Earle
America
Annoying
Colonial
English
Far
Habit
Irritating
Learn
Plentiful
Records
Scold
Shape
Though
Too
Unknown
Were
Women
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The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.
~ Alice Morse Earle
American
Both
Colonists
Course
Everywhere
Fat
First
Forests
Found
Greatest
Houses
Lighting
Most
Natural
Natural Way
North
Plenty
South
Way
Were
Which
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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Around
Build
Built
Colonists
First
Half
Homes
Lands
Law
Meadow
Mile
Must
New
Often
Ordered
Since
Them
Valleys
Were
Within
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The landlord of colonial days may not have been the greatest man in town, but he was certainly the best-known, often the most popular, and ever the most picturesque and cheerful figure.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Been
Certainly
Cheerful
Colonial
Days
Ever
Figure
Greatest
Greatest Man
He
Landlord
Man
May
Most
Often
Picturesque
Popular
Town
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The men in those old days of the seventeenth century, when in constant dread of attacks by Indians, always rose when the services were ended and left the house before the women and children, thus making sure the safe exit of the latter.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Always
Attacks
Before
Century
Children
Constant
Days
Dread
Ended
Exit
House
Indians
Latter
Left
Making
Men
Old
Old Days
Rose
Safe
Services
Sure
Those
Thus
Were
Women
Women And Children
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The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
~ Alice Morse Earle
Any
Cannot
Criminals
Even
Ever
Many
Martyr
Most
Noble
Sat
Save
Seen
Stocks
Think
Victim
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Alice Morse Earle
Profession
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BirthDate
27 April, 1851
DeathDate
16 February, 1911
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