The American masterpieces of the mid-19th century - "Moby-Dick," "The Scarlet Letter," the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and, for that matter, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - were compounded of precisely these elements, and nowadays it seems almost impossible to write about that period without crossing into the realm of the supernatural, or at least the self-consciously mythic.
He discovers that, after all, nothing really matters except Uncle's love for him.
don't buy it!" doesn't apply to matters involving Uncle Sam.
(So, for that matter, did Uncle Paul, before he learned to relish their hatred).
And, for a bit longer, we can both enjoy "Folsom Prison Blues" without my having to explain why it is "not O.K., no matter what Uncle Johnny says," to shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
Lincoln supposedly asked a Tribune correspondent, "What in the world is the matter with Uncle Horace?
It does matter for Uncle Lino, whose trainer Gary Sherlock was hoping to draw a little further outside.
Horrified by the idea that women should concern themselves with such base matters, the hapless agony uncle skedaddled.
Ayoub, allowing himself a touch of pride in his newfound responsibility, is nonetheless still a child, vulnerable to being cheated by middlemen when he joins the smugglers and overruled and humiliated by his uncle in matters affecting family honor.
His creditors finally persuaded his nephew, Charles Greville to take the matter up with his uncle.
