Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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... death upon the beach . The mariners had made a fatal mistake . To kill none , unless they could kill all , should have been . their rule , a lesson in practical wisdom which they were soon to learn . But , heedless of danger and with ...
... death upon the beach . The mariners had made a fatal mistake . To kill none , unless they could kill all , should have been . their rule , a lesson in practical wisdom which they were soon to learn . But , heedless of danger and with ...
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... death threatened to follow the withdrawal of the fatal dart . " My day is come , " said the dying chief . " Return home to Greenland as quickly as you may . But as for me , you shall carry me to the place which I said would be so ...
... death threatened to follow the withdrawal of the fatal dart . " My day is come , " said the dying chief . " Return home to Greenland as quickly as you may . But as for me , you shall carry me to the place which I said would be so ...
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... death , he helped his mother at sheep - keeping in the wilderness till he was eighteen years of age , then there came " an unaccountable impulse upon his mind that he was born to greater matters . " The seed of genius planted in his ...
... death , he helped his mother at sheep - keeping in the wilderness till he was eighteen years of age , then there came " an unaccountable impulse upon his mind that he was born to greater matters . " The seed of genius planted in his ...
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... an ardor remarkable in one of his years . The sav- ages , who had been swarming together preparatory to an attack , beheld with surprise this orderly rush forward of the villagers , and shrunk from their death- 70 HISTORICAL TALES .
... an ardor remarkable in one of his years . The sav- ages , who had been swarming together preparatory to an attack , beheld with surprise this orderly rush forward of the villagers , and shrunk from their death- 70 HISTORICAL TALES .
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American Charles Morris. forward of the villagers , and shrunk from their death- dealing and regular volleys . And the white - haired form who led their foes with such fearless audacity struck terror to their superstitious souls ...
American Charles Morris. forward of the villagers , and shrunk from their death- dealing and regular volleys . And the white - haired form who led their foes with such fearless audacity struck terror to their superstitious souls ...
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Aaron Burr adventures alarm American appeared armed army battle Blennerhasset boat Boston British bullets Burr camp canoes Captain captured Champe Champlain Chattanooga Colonel Colonel Sheppard command Confederate Cornell craft crew danger daring deck enemy engine England enterprise escape eyes fell filled fire flames flight force forest French frigate fugitives garrison gave governor Green Mountain boys Greenland guns hands haste hope horse hour hundred Indians iron-clad Iroquois island journey ketch knew lake land Leif Lexington men LIBBY PRISON looked Lord Rawdon Marietta Marion Merrimac miles militia minutes Morse night officers onward party passed patriot Pedee River peril Phips prisoners proved pursuers pursuit Putnam quickly reached river road sail savages seemed sent sentinel ship shore shot side Simon Girty speed stood story stream swamp told took track train Tripoli troops vessel Vineland Washington William Phips wire wood
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Página 94 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Página 232 - Well knows the fair and friendly moon The band that Marion leads,— The glitter of their rifles, The scampering of their steeds.
Página 95 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 95 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Página 88 - 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 231 - Our tent the cypress tree; We know the forest round us, As seamen know the sea. We know its walls of thorny vines, Its glades of reedy grass, Its safe and silent islands Within the dark morass.
Página 94 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.
Página 100 - 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...
Página 100 - 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 153 - 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 a 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.