Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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... speed , for vengeance and death confront you . " Suddenly aroused , they sprang to their feet , look- ing at each other with astounded eyes , and asking who had spoken those words . Little time for an- swer remained . The woods behind ...
... speed , for vengeance and death confront you . " Suddenly aroused , they sprang to their feet , look- ing at each other with astounded eyes , and asking who had spoken those words . Little time for an- swer remained . The woods behind ...
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... speed that the Frenchmen found it impossible to keep them in sight . It was a hot and oppressive day ; the air was filled with mosquitoes , " so thick , " says Champlain , " that we could hardly draw breath , and it was wonderful how ...
... speed that the Frenchmen found it impossible to keep them in sight . It was a hot and oppressive day ; the air was filled with mosquitoes , " so thick , " says Champlain , " that we could hardly draw breath , and it was wonderful how ...
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... speed to the fort . When he reached there the barracks appeared to be doomed , and the flames were rapidly approaching the magazine . As for the garrison , it was almost in a state of panic , and next to nothing was being done to avert ...
... speed to the fort . When he reached there the barracks appeared to be doomed , and the flames were rapidly approaching the magazine . As for the garrison , it was almost in a state of panic , and next to nothing was being done to avert ...
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... Speed was needed . The Indians had suddenly come to a realizing sense of the woman's purpose , and a volley of bullets swept the space over which she fled . Not one touched her . In a minute she had reached the fort . A shout of ...
... Speed was needed . The Indians had suddenly come to a realizing sense of the woman's purpose , and a volley of bullets swept the space over which she fled . Not one touched her . In a minute she had reached the fort . A shout of ...
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... speed and skill , he threw them from his trail . Many and perilous were his adven- tures during his three months of lonely life in the woods and canebrakes of that fear - haunted land . Prowling wolves troubled him by night , prowling ...
... speed and skill , he threw them from his trail . Many and perilous were his adven- tures during his three months of lonely life in the woods and canebrakes of that fear - haunted land . Prowling wolves troubled him by night , prowling ...
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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.