The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 56Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1833 - American periodicals |
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The heavy swell rolled with a weird monotony , Now washing drifts of sea - weed to my feet , Now sliding back , the new - formed wave to meet . A rocky headland farther up the shore , Dashed back the huge waves with a sullen roar ...
The heavy swell rolled with a weird monotony , Now washing drifts of sea - weed to my feet , Now sliding back , the new - formed wave to meet . A rocky headland farther up the shore , Dashed back the huge waves with a sullen roar ...
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The river was turned from its course by means of a canal thirty , feet deep , and three hundred stadia in length . Thousands of workmen were employed upon the long arched gallery , fifteen feet in width and twelve feet high ...
The river was turned from its course by means of a canal thirty , feet deep , and three hundred stadia in length . Thousands of workmen were employed upon the long arched gallery , fifteen feet in width and twelve feet high ...
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... in with a brick wall , or walled in with a board fence , about eight feet high : the ground of which inclosure is kept in a high state of cultivation , planted with choice flowers and shrubbery , and all exquisitely arranged .
... in with a brick wall , or walled in with a board fence , about eight feet high : the ground of which inclosure is kept in a high state of cultivation , planted with choice flowers and shrubbery , and all exquisitely arranged .
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Contents
A TALE FROM THE FRENCH | 1 |
MY NEIGHBOR BAWN THE BORROWER | 17 |
THEROUETS CONVERSION | 18 |
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