I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me

With the bundle containing my keepsakes, I now sat down by Georgia and listened with bated breath to the sound of grandma's approaching footsteps.

Waiting beside him, she wrote to his parents, enclosing the little keepsakes he had designated when conscious, while his life flickered with the flickering candle.

The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, And in it are enshrined The precious keepsakes, into which is wrought The giver's loving thought.

Then I laid out my treasured keepsakes.

When he was gone she said, 'I don't really want the thing, but it was hard you should lose the Queen's keepsake.

These chains were the fashion of the hour, and the old family doctor, friend as well as physician, paused after a visit to the boy's mother, to joke her about it: "You're making a keepsake for your sweetheart, I see.

The agreement was made, and she collected a few keepsakes and other light articles, which she wished us to have, and which the men seemed more than willing to carry out of the mountains.

Accordin' to his account, the gold came from all sidesstarboard and larboard, as a body might sayand it was jumbled together, and so mixed, that a young girl could not pick out her lover's keepsake from among the other pieces.

She sold the old house, selected a few keepsakes from it, disposed of all else, and came, late in November, back to the city.

She has even sold my keepsake, and would rather win a bracelet of hair from girls whom she did not always think so much superior to Leonora, than have my esteem, my confidence, and my friendship, for her whole life; yes, for her whole life, for I am sure she will be an amiable woman.

"I am sending you a little keepsake in case we should drift apart on the eddies of life.

It was a reopening of Tony's sorrow when Aunt Charlotte came up from the country to find that the little child had gone away altogether, leaving only her tiny frocks and clothes, which were neatly folded up in a drawer, where old Oliver treasured up a keepsake or two of his wife's.

But it was all over; no tears dimmed her eye, as she sat thinking so mournfully of her great sorrow, till she unfastened from her neck a little keepsake containing a lock of grandmother's hair, then all the floodgates of her soul were opened and she threw herself upon her bed and sobbed herself to sleep.

He simply buys her of her parents, and as for the girl, after being informed that she has been sold "she immediately packs up her little keepsakes and trinkets, and without exhibiting any emotion, such as is common to white girls, leaves her home, and goes to the lodge of her master," where she is henceforth his wife and "willing slave."