Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality: AmericanJ.B. Lippincott, 1893 - 328 páginas |
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... fugitives . Several times they were in imminent danger of capture , yet fortune always came to their aid . A day arrived in which the cave ceased to serve as a safe harbor of refuge . A party of Indians , hunting in the woods ...
... fugitives . Several times they were in imminent danger of capture , yet fortune always came to their aid . A day arrived in which the cave ceased to serve as a safe harbor of refuge . A party of Indians , hunting in the woods ...
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... fugitives , happily for them , had no occasion to avail themselves of the concealed closet . Their place of hiding remained for years unsuspected . In time the rigor of the search was given up , and for many years they remained here in ...
... fugitives , happily for them , had no occasion to avail themselves of the concealed closet . Their place of hiding remained for years unsuspected . In time the rigor of the search was given up , and for many years they remained here in ...
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... fugitive sped swiftly along the dark and quiet streets , ending his course at length in front of a noble and imposing oak - tree , which stood before the house of the Honorable Samuel Wyllys , one of the colonial magistrates . This tree ...
... fugitive sped swiftly along the dark and quiet streets , ending his course at length in front of a noble and imposing oak - tree , which stood before the house of the Honorable Samuel Wyllys , one of the colonial magistrates . This tree ...
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... fugitive was across and safe from his savage pursuers . The Indians returned disappointed to the vicinity of the fort . Here they found that their leader had decided on abandoning the assault . The reinforce- ments received , and the ...
... fugitive was across and safe from his savage pursuers . The Indians returned disappointed to the vicinity of the fort . Here they found that their leader had decided on abandoning the assault . The reinforce- ments received , and the ...
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... fugitive reached the banks of the Ohio River . As yet he had not seen a foo . As yet he had not fired a gun . He must put that great stream , now swollen to a half - mile in width by the late rains , between him and his foes ere he ...
... fugitive reached the banks of the Ohio River . As yet he had not seen a foo . As yet he had not fired a gun . He must put that great stream , now swollen to a half - mile in width by the late rains , between him and his foes ere he ...
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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.