All 6 Uses of
Abraham Lincoln
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- On the walls between the books there were four pictures, of Christ crucified, and Abraham Lincoln, and the white gabled house of Vergelegen, and a painting of leafless willows by a river in a wintry veld.†
Chpt 2.20Abraham Lincoln = U.S. president who led during the Civil War and ended slavery before being assassinated (1809-1865)
- Here were hundreds of books, all about Abraham Lincoln.†
Chpt 2.20 *
- He went back to the chair, and looked long at the pictures of Christ crucified, and Abraham Lincoln, and Vergelegen, and the willows by the river.†
Chpt 2.20
- He picked up the Abraham Lincoln and went down to the study again, and there opened the book at the Second Inaugural Address of the great president.†
Chpt 2.21
- And he went round the books again, past the case full of Abraham Lincoln, and the case full of South Africa, and the case full of Afrikaners, and the case full of religion and sociology and crime and criminals, and the case full of poetry and novels and Shakespeare.†
Chpt 2.24
- He looked at the pictures of the Christ crucified, and Abraham Lincoln, and Vergelegen, and the willows in the winter.†
Chpt 2.24