The Pioneers: Or, the Sources of the Susquehanna, Volumes 1-2Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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... kind of life that I have attempted to de- scribe , render it more peculiarly proper . You , at least , dear Sutherland , will not receive this dedi- cation as a cold compliment , but as an evidence of the feeling that makes me , Warmly ...
... kind of life that I have attempted to de- scribe , render it more peculiarly proper . You , at least , dear Sutherland , will not receive this dedi- cation as a cold compliment , but as an evidence of the feeling that makes me , Warmly ...
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... ; but none of either that would be so dear to me . I wish , therefore , to be judged more by what I have done , than by my sins of omission . I have introduced one battle , but it is not of the most Homeric kind . As for murders PREFACE .
... ; but none of either that would be so dear to me . I wish , therefore , to be judged more by what I have done , than by my sins of omission . I have introduced one battle , but it is not of the most Homeric kind . As for murders PREFACE .
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... kind . As for murders , the population of a new country will not admit of such a waste of human life . There might possibly have been one or two hangings , to the manifest ad- vantage of the " settlement ; " but then it would have been ...
... kind . As for murders , the population of a new country will not admit of such a waste of human life . There might possibly have been one or two hangings , to the manifest ad- vantage of the " settlement ; " but then it would have been ...
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... 'm thinking . " As the speaker concluded , he drew his bare hand across the bottom of his nose , and again opened his enormous mouth with a kind of inward laugh . " The gun scatters well , Natty , and has THE PIONEERS . 17.
... 'm thinking . " As the speaker concluded , he drew his bare hand across the bottom of his nose , and again opened his enormous mouth with a kind of inward laugh . " The gun scatters well , Natty , and has THE PIONEERS . 17.
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... kind of disdainful re- signation . " The time has been , when I have shot thirteen deer , without counting the fa'ns , standing in the door of my own hut ! -and for bear's meat , if one wanted a ham or so from the cretur , he had only ...
... kind of disdainful re- signation . " The time has been , when I have shot thirteen deer , without counting the fa'ns , standing in the door of my own hut ! -and for bear's meat , if one wanted a ham or so from the cretur , he had only ...
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Page 175 - That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 9 - Elizabeth witnessed the short struggle, and her blood was warming with the triumph of the dog, when she saw the form of the old panther in the air, springing twenty feet from the branch of the beech to the back of the mastiff. No words of ours can describe the fury of the conflict that followed. It was a confused struggle on the dried leaves, accompanied by loud and terrible cries, barks, and growls.
Page 9 - So rapkl and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the forest, that its active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff, which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
Page 77 - Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves A beggarly account of empty boxes, Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty seeds, Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses, Were thinly scatter'd to make up a show.
Page 7 - His advanced age had long before deprived him of his activity ; and ivhen his companions stopped to view the scenery, or to add to their bouquets, the mastiff would lay his huge frame on the ground, and await their movements, with his eyes closed, and a listlessness in his air that ill accorded with the character of a protector. But when, aroused by this cry from Louisa, Miss Temple turned, she saw the dog with his eyes keenly set on some distant object, his head bent near the ground, and his hair...
Page 10 - There is said to be something in the front of the image of the Maker that daunts the hearts of the inferior beings of His creation; and it would seem that some such power, in the present instance, suspended the threatened blow. The eyes of the monster and the kneeling maiden met, for an instant, when the former stooped to examine her fallen foe ; next to scent her luckless cub. From the latter examination it turned, however, with its eyes apparently emitting flashes of fire, its tail lashing its...
Page 89 - ... It is immaterial whether it be one or the other," interrupted Miss Temple, with a logic that contained more feeling than reason ; " I know Natty to be innocent, and, thinking so, I must think all wrong who oppress him." " His judge among the number! thy father, Elizabeth?" " Nay, nay—nay ; do not put such questions to me; give me my commission, father, and let me proceed to execute it.
Page 26 - To his eye, where others saw nothing but a wilderness, towns, manufactories, bridges, canals, mines, and all the other resources of an old country, were constantly presenting themselves, though his good sense suppressed, in some degree, the exhibition of these expectations.