Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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... TRACK OF A TRAITOR 208 MARION , THE SWAMP - FOX 220 THE FATE OF THE PHILADELPHIA 233 THE VICTIM OF A TRAITOR . 245 HOW THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH WAS INVENTED 255 THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC 270 · STEALING A LOCOMOTIVE 279 AN ESCAPE FROM ...
... TRACK OF A TRAITOR 208 MARION , THE SWAMP - FOX 220 THE FATE OF THE PHILADELPHIA 233 THE VICTIM OF A TRAITOR . 245 HOW THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH WAS INVENTED 255 THE MONITOR AND THE MERRIMAC 270 · STEALING A LOCOMOTIVE 279 AN ESCAPE FROM ...
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... track in the morning . Here is a cake of bread for you , and you must give us meat in the morning . " The savage was glad enough to get away . Gist followed and listened , that he might not steal back on them . Then they went half a ...
... track in the morning . Here is a cake of bread for you , and you must give us meat in the morning . " The savage was glad enough to get away . Gist followed and listened , that he might not steal back on them . Then they went half a ...
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... track . And there would be no further safety for him if captured . Death , by the most cruel tortures the infuriated savages could devise , was sure to be his fate . All this Boone knew , but it did not shake his reso- lute soul . His ...
... track . And there would be no further safety for him if captured . Death , by the most cruel tortures the infuriated savages could devise , was sure to be his fate . All this Boone knew , but it did not shake his reso- lute soul . His ...
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... track , like blood hounds on the scent of their victims , came the furious pursuers ; now losing his trail , now recover- ing it ; and , as they went , spreading out over a wide space , and pushing steadily southward over the gen- eral ...
... track , like blood hounds on the scent of their victims , came the furious pursuers ; now losing his trail , now recover- ing it ; and , as they went , spreading out over a wide space , and pushing steadily southward over the gen- eral ...
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... track and marched disconsolately homeward , having had their labor for their pains . The army authorities were all at sea . How had this information got afoot ? Had it come from the Darrah house ? Possibly , for there the conference had ...
... track and marched disconsolately homeward , having had their labor for their pains . The army authorities were all at sea . How had this information got afoot ? Had it come from the Darrah house ? Possibly , for there the conference had ...
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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.