Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott Company, 1898 - 319 páginas |
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... length , low amidships and curving upwards to high peaks at stem and stern , both of which converged to sharp edges . It resembled an enormous canoe rather than aught else to which we can compare it . On the stem was a carved and gilt ...
... length , low amidships and curving upwards to high peaks at stem and stern , both of which converged to sharp edges . It resembled an enormous canoe rather than aught else to which we can compare it . On the stem was a carved and gilt ...
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... length the fog cleared away , the distressed mariners saw land before them , a low , level , thickly - wooded region , very different from the ice - covered realm they had been led to ex- pect . " Is this the land of which we are in ...
... length the fog cleared away , the distressed mariners saw land before them , a low , level , thickly - wooded region , very different from the ice - covered realm they had been led to ex- pect . " Is this the land of which we are in ...
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... prow of their craft southward , and battled with the waves day after day , their hearts full of hope , their eyes on the alert for the glint of distant lands . At length land was discovered , -a dreary country , 14 HISTORICAL TALES .
... prow of their craft southward , and battled with the waves day after day , their hearts full of hope , their eyes on the alert for the glint of distant lands . At length land was discovered , -a dreary country , 14 HISTORICAL TALES .
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... length rose again the stirring cry of " Land ! " or its Norse equivalent , and as the dragon - peaked craft glided swiftly onward there rose into view a long coast - line , flat and covered with white sand in the foreground , while a ...
... length rose again the stirring cry of " Land ! " or its Norse equivalent , and as the dragon - peaked craft glided swiftly onward there rose into view a long coast - line , flat and covered with white sand in the foreground , while a ...
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... length called out , in their own tongue ; " and if I am late I have a good excuse . I can tell you news . " " What are they ? " " I have made a grand discovery . See , I have found vines and grapes , " and he showed them his hands ...
... length called out , in their own tongue ; " and if I am late I have a good excuse . I can tell you news . " " What are they ? " " I have made a grand discovery . See , I have found vines and grapes , " and he showed them his hands ...
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Página 228 - OUR band is few but true and tried, Our leader frank and bold; The British soldier trembles When Marion's name is told.
Página 228 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads,— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Página 86 - Drum, drum, I say,' and turning to his excellency, said, 'If I am interrupted again I will make the sun shine through you in a moment.
Página 96 - But the Great Being above allowed it to be a place of residence for us ; so, fathers, I desire you to withdraw, as I have done our brothers the English ; for I will keep you at arm's length.
Página 88 - I set out however in a boat for Amboy, leaving my chest and things to follow me round by sea. In crossing the bay, we met with a squall that tore our rotten sails to pieces, prevented our getting into the Kill, and drove us upon Long Island.
Página 96 - Fathers, you, in former days, set a silver basin before us, wherein there was the leg of a beaver, and desired all the nations to come and eat of it, — to eat in peace and plenty, and not to be churlish to one another ; and that if any such person should be found to be a disturber, I here lay down by the edge of the dish a rod, which you must scourge them with ; and if your...
Página 90 - By this means he set many of the facts in a very ridiculous light, and might have hurt weak minds if his work had been published; but it never was. At his house I lay that night, and the next morning reach'd Burlington, but had the mortification to find that the regular boats were gone a little before my coming, and no other expected to go before Tuesday, this being Saturday...
Página 205 - in the expectation that you have some one in your corps, who is willing to undertake a delicate and hazardous project. Whoever comes forward will confer great obligations upon me personally, and, in behalf of the United States, I will reward him amply. No time is to be lost ; he must proceed, if possible, to-night. I intend to seize Arnold, and save Andre.
Página 90 - They took me in, and, as there was no wind, we row'd all the way ; and about midnight, not having yet seen the city, some of the company were confident we must have passed it, and would row no farther...
Página 149 - Two darling sons, and a brother, have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I been companion for owls, separated from the cheerful society of men, scorched by the summer's sun, and pinched by the Winter's cold, an instrument ordained to settle the wilderness.