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Pagina 2
... heads of flint , and stone battle - axes , occa- sionally digged up about the Roost : of his wizard powers , we have a token in a spring which wells up at the foot of the bank , on the very margin of the river , which , it is said , was ...
... heads of flint , and stone battle - axes , occa- sionally digged up about the Roost : of his wizard powers , we have a token in a spring which wells up at the foot of the bank , on the very margin of the river , which , it is said , was ...
Pagina 6
... head wind at every turn , and be kept in a constant fume and fret by the perverseness of mankind . Had he served on a modern jury , he would have been sure to have eleven un- reasonable men opposed to him . At the time when the province ...
... head wind at every turn , and be kept in a constant fume and fret by the perverseness of mankind . Had he served on a modern jury , he would have been sure to have eleven un- reasonable men opposed to him . At the time when the province ...
Pagina 7
... head - quarters at Peekskill . The intervening country from Croton River to Spiting Devil Creek was the debatable ground in question , liable to be harried by friend and foe , like the Scottish borders of yore . It is a rugged region ...
... head - quarters at Peekskill . The intervening country from Croton River to Spiting Devil Creek was the debatable ground in question , liable to be harried by friend and foe , like the Scottish borders of yore . It is a rugged region ...
Pagina 9
... heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George . To check these enormities , a confederacy was formed among the yeomanry who had suffered from these maraudings . It was composed for the most part of farmers ' sons , bold , hard ...
... heads whether he crowed for Congress or King George . To check these enormities , a confederacy was formed among the yeomanry who had suffered from these maraudings . It was composed for the most part of farmers ' sons , bold , hard ...
Pagina 12
... head - quarters of any extraordinary movement . At night they rowed about in pairs , pulling quietly along with muffled oars , under shadow of the land , or gliding like spectres about frigates and guard - ships to cut off any boat that ...
... head - quarters of any extraordinary movement . At night they rowed about in pairs , pulling quietly along with muffled oars , under shadow of the land , or gliding like spectres about frigates and guard - ships to cut off any boat that ...
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Pagina 83 - Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath That the rude sea grew civil at her song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Pagina 28 - ... of the poorest, I was assured he was one of the merriest and most popular personages in his native village. Compere Martin, as he was commonly called, was the factotum of the place, — sportsman, schoolmaster, and land-surveyor. He could sing, dance, and, above all, play on the fiddle, an invaluable accomplishment in an old French Creole village, for the inhabitants have a hereditary love for balls and fetes. If they work but little, they dance a great deal ; and a fiddle is the joy of their...
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