Cooper's Novels, Volume 1Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... believe the people will continue to come into this crowded town , until it gets to be as pestilent as Rotterdam in the dog - days . You have now come to years when a man obtains his reflection , boy , and I expect suitable care and ...
... believe the people will continue to come into this crowded town , until it gets to be as pestilent as Rotterdam in the dog - days . You have now come to years when a man obtains his reflection , boy , and I expect suitable care and ...
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... believe , Patroon , you were so lucky as to get back your moneys , before the royal displeasure visit- ed the man ? " 66 I was so lucky as never to trust him . " " That was better still , for it would have been a barren investment ...
... believe , Patroon , you were so lucky as to get back your moneys , before the royal displeasure visit- ed the man ? " 66 I was so lucky as never to trust him . " " That was better still , for it would have been a barren investment ...
Page 41
... believe him equal to bandying wits with the stranger . " Long , or short ; Calcutta , or Cape Cod ; dead reckoning , eye - sight , or star - gazing , all's one to your real dolphin . The shape of the coast between Fundy and Horn , is as ...
... believe him equal to bandying wits with the stranger . " Long , or short ; Calcutta , or Cape Cod ; dead reckoning , eye - sight , or star - gazing , all's one to your real dolphin . The shape of the coast between Fundy and Horn , is as ...
Page 61
... as fine as you would make a plain seafaring man believe , he did wrong not to print it . " " Print ! " echoed François , opening his eyes , and VOL . I. F the volume , by a common impulse . " Imprimé THE WATER - WITCH . 61.
... as fine as you would make a plain seafaring man believe , he did wrong not to print it . " " Print ! " echoed François , opening his eyes , and VOL . I. F the volume , by a common impulse . " Imprimé THE WATER - WITCH . 61.
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... believe your grandfather came into the province , so lately as on the restoration of King Charles the Second ? " " We cannot claim descent from the United Prov inces F 2 THE WATER - WITCH . 65 dispose of them, in behalf of old men and ...
... believe your grandfather came into the province , so lately as on the restoration of King Charles the Second ? " " We cannot claim descent from the United Prov inces F 2 THE WATER - WITCH . 65 dispose of them, in behalf of old men and ...
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Page 66 - But methinks he should stand in fear of fire, being burnt i' the hand for stealing of sheep. [Aside. CADE. Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 190 - Thou think'st It much to tread the ooze of the salt deep, And run upon the sharp wind of the north !" " I never dared to ask again. But what matters that ? They say the ground is rough and difficult to walk on ; that earthquakes shake it and make holes to swallow cities...
Page 25 - I am gone, sir, and anon, sir, I'll be with you again, In a trice, like to the old vice, Your need to sustain. Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath, Cries ah, ha ! to the devil. Like a mad lad, pare thy nails, dad, Adieu, goodman devil.
Page 191 - ... the sea-fowl, rocking in the storm* In breeze and gale, thy onward course we urge ; My Water-Queen ! Lady of mine ! More light and swift than thou, none thread the sea, With surer keel, or steadier on its path ; We brave each waste of ocean-mystery, And laugh to hear the howling tempest's wrath ! For we are thine ! My brigantine ! Trust to the mystic power that points thy way, Trust to the eye that pierces from afar, Trust the red meteors that around thee play, And fearless trust the sea-green...