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... tell their story like honest chronicles . And a brave story it is of hardy adventure , and manly love of freedom ! The scattered bricks , all mouldered in the mother - land , remind us of the launching of the bark , the struggle with ...
... tell their story like honest chronicles . And a brave story it is of hardy adventure , and manly love of freedom ! The scattered bricks , all mouldered in the mother - land , remind us of the launching of the bark , the struggle with ...
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... tell of the victory won , and quiet gradually confirmed , -and of the increas- ing rapture as , day by day , the settler's hopes were converted into realities , when he saw the wilderness put forth the blossoms of security and comfort ...
... tell of the victory won , and quiet gradually confirmed , -and of the increas- ing rapture as , day by day , the settler's hopes were converted into realities , when he saw the wilderness put forth the blossoms of security and comfort ...
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... tell you , Garret Weasel ! Good and wholesome wisely laid down by the burgesses , and wisely maintained by his Lordship . You rail without cause . Sober habits must be engendered : -your health , comrades ! Then it behooves you ...
... tell you , Garret Weasel ! Good and wholesome wisely laid down by the burgesses , and wisely maintained by his Lordship . You rail without cause . Sober habits must be engendered : -your health , comrades ! Then it behooves you ...
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... tell the story , though I will not vouch for the truth of what I have only at second hand . " After the listeners had adjusted themselves in their chairs , Dauntrees proceeded . " There was , in Yorkshire , a Major William Weatherby ...
... tell the story , though I will not vouch for the truth of what I have only at second hand . " After the listeners had adjusted themselves in their chairs , Dauntrees proceeded . " There was , in Yorkshire , a Major William Weatherby ...
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... tell enough of his wicked- ness to make one's hair rise on end . He dwelt in this house at St. Jerome's in Clayborne's day , and took part with that free- booter ; -went with him , as I have heard , to the Island , and was outlawed ...
... tell enough of his wicked- ness to make one's hair rise on end . He dwelt in this house at St. Jerome's in Clayborne's day , and took part with that free- booter ; -went with him , as I have heard , to the Island , and was outlawed ...
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Page 156 - Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 1 Imprisoned or caged. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more.
Page 7 - And desolation saddens all thy green: One only master grasps the whole domain, And half a tillage stints thy smiling plain.
Page 375 - It is our op'ning day. Nor board nor garner own we now, Nor roof nor latched door, Nor kind mate, bound by holy vow To bless a good man's store...
Page 177 - Fellows, to mount a bank. Did your instructor In the dear tongues, never discourse to you Of the Italian mountebanks ? Per.
Page 70 - Which seemly was to see; A hood to that so neat and fine, In colour like the columbine, Ywrought full featously.
Page 135 - ' Bell my wife she loves not strife, Yet she will lead me if she can ; And oft, to live a quiet life...
Page 14 - Furthermore, Kennedy described the roof as having been "capped by a wooden balustraded parapet, terminating, at each extremity, in a scroll like the head of a violin, and, in the middle, sustaining an entablature that rose to a summit on which was mounted a weathercock.
Page 63 - She cast her weeds away, And to the palmy shore she hied, All in her best array. In sea-green silk so neatly clad, She there impatient stood ; The crew with wonder saw the lad Repell the foaming flood.
Page 197 - Some do call me Jack, sweetheart, And some do call me Jille." Witton Gilbert, a village four miles west of Durham, is, throughout the bishopric, pronounced Witton Jilbert. We have also the common name of Giles, always in Scotland pronounced Jill. For Gille, or Juliana, as a female name, we have Fair Gillian of Croyden, and a thousand authorities.
Page 100 - Twas even said the Blasted Oak, Convulsive, heaved a hollow groan : And, to this day, the peasant still, With cautious fear avoids the ground ; In each wild branch a spectre sees, And trembles at each rising sound.