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Page xxxiii
... squatter sovereignty , stamping ground , stump , & c . - The peculiar physical features of the country - its animals , productions , aborigines , forest - life , & c . have been a most fruitful source , from which have sprung perhaps ...
... squatter sovereignty , stamping ground , stump , & c . - The peculiar physical features of the country - its animals , productions , aborigines , forest - life , & c . have been a most fruitful source , from which have sprung perhaps ...
Page xxxvi
... squatter , & c . , are necessary additions to the language . The metaphorical and other odd expressions used first at the West , and afterwards in other parts of the country , often origi- nate in some curious anecdote or event , which ...
... squatter , & c . , are necessary additions to the language . The metaphorical and other odd expressions used first at the West , and afterwards in other parts of the country , often origi- nate in some curious anecdote or event , which ...
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... of her : she had an eye that would make a fellow's heart try to get out of his bosom , her step was light as a panther's , and her breath sweet as a prairie flower . Robb , Squatter Life . If you can only get Kit rid of them little 8 ALL.
... of her : she had an eye that would make a fellow's heart try to get out of his bosom , her step was light as a panther's , and her breath sweet as a prairie flower . Robb , Squatter Life . If you can only get Kit rid of them little 8 ALL.
Page 109
... Squatter Life . There's some monstrous fractious characters down in our beat , and they mustn't come a cavortin ' about me when I give orders . - Major Jones's Courtship , p . 20 . Cawhalux ! Whop ! The noise made by a box on the ear ...
... Squatter Life . There's some monstrous fractious characters down in our beat , and they mustn't come a cavortin ' about me when I give orders . - Major Jones's Courtship , p . 20 . Cawhalux ! Whop ! The noise made by a box on the ear ...
Page 110
... 'd chaw me up , if an inch big of me was found in them diggins in the mornin ' . - Robb , Squatter Life , p . 63 . Miss Patience smiled , and looked at Joe Cash . 110 CHA When a person attempts to effect a particular object, ...
... 'd chaw me up , if an inch big of me was found in them diggins in the mornin ' . - Robb , Squatter Life , p . 63 . Miss Patience smiled , and looked at Joe Cash . 110 CHA When a person attempts to effect a particular object, ...
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Page 347 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 368 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South in the same intercourse, benefiting by the agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its...
Page 313 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears Him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Page 353 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
Page 597 - OH ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, 'What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars' through the perilous fight, ' O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming ; And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there...
Page 219 - Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone ; All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones...
Page 55 - But the hands that were played By that heathen Chinee, And the points that he made, Were quite frightful to see— Till at last he put down a right bower, Which the same Nye had dealt unto me. Then I looked up at Nye, And he gazed upon me; And he rose with a sigh, And said, "Can this be? We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor" — And he went for that heathen Chinee.
Page 539 - It is the failure to apprehend this great truth that induces so many unsuccessful attempts at final compromise between the slave and free States, and it is the existence of this great fact that renders all such pretended compromises> when made, vain and ephemeral.
Page 231 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky ; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 122 - In the scene that ensued I did not take a hand, But the floor it was strewed Like the leaves on the strand With the cards that Ah Sin had been hiding, In the game "he did not understand.