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  • First, it was "Treat my daughter kind-i-ly," and then she swung into old-fashioned darky camp-meeting hymns, beginning with:

    CHAPTER I 2010

  • But traditionally and to this day, gospel soulful divas and dons, quartets and choirs is at its roots “Black folk music” and fervent, camp-meeting religion.

    Giveaway — Black History Collection: Soul of the Church 2010

  • The capture of Gilmore caused the disbandment of the party he had organized at the "camp-meeting," most of the men he had recruited returning to their homes discouraged, though some few joined the bands of Woodson and young Jesse McNeil, which, led by the latter, dashed into Cumberland, Maryland, at 3 O'clock on the morning of the

    She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

  • It quickly ceased to be an argument addressed to the court -- Bryan, in fact, constantly said "My friends" instead of "Your Honor" -- and became a sermon at the camp-meeting.

    Archive 2006-07-01 David 2006

  • It quickly ceased to be an argument addressed to the court -- Bryan, in fact, constantly said "My friends" instead of "Your Honor" -- and became a sermon at the camp-meeting.

    He blogs! David 2006

  • With a literal imitation of camp-meeting racket, and trance.

    Time Waits for No Man The Daily Growler 2006

  • With a literal imitation of camp-meeting racket, and trance.

    Vachel Lindsay Defended The Daily Growler 2006

  • It was a vast camp-meeting which continued for two years, but there was no disorder, and a decent quiet ruled throughout the strangely extemporized city.

    The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

  • When dinner was over my wife and daughter repaired to the neighbouring church, and I went in quest of the camp-meeting, having a mighty desire to know what kind of a thing Methodism at Chester was.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • These, on inquiry, we were informed, were Methodists, going about to raise recruits for a grand camp-meeting, which was to be held a little way out of the town.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

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