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Page 60
... creature , indeed ! " muttered Roland to himself , contrasting in thought the condition of this helpless and deserted girl with that of his own unfortunate kins- woman , and sighing to acknowledge that it was still more forlorn and ...
... creature , indeed ! " muttered Roland to himself , contrasting in thought the condition of this helpless and deserted girl with that of his own unfortunate kins- woman , and sighing to acknowledge that it was still more forlorn and ...
Page 93
... creature ! What will thee have with me ? " " A fight ! a fight , I tell thee ! " replied Captain Ralph , " till I teach thy leatheri- fied conscience the new doctrines of Ken- tucky . " Fight thee , I cannot and dare not , " said Nathan ...
... creature ! What will thee have with me ? " " A fight ! a fight , I tell thee ! " replied Captain Ralph , " till I teach thy leatheri- fied conscience the new doctrines of Ken- tucky . " Fight thee , I cannot and dare not , " said Nathan ...
Page 100
... creatures , marching into the district of Kentucky with a greater army than was ever seen in the land before . " " Let them come , the brutes , " said the Kentuckian , with a laugh of scorn ; " it will save us the trouble of hunting ...
... creatures , marching into the district of Kentucky with a greater army than was ever seen in the land before . " " Let them come , the brutes , " said the Kentuckian , with a laugh of scorn ; " it will save us the trouble of hunting ...
Page 160
... creature . " But why need we , " he said , “ trouble ourselves to find reasons for the poor girl's opposition ? Here are the tracks of our friends , broader and deeper than ever : here they wind down into the hollow ; and there you may ...
... creature . " But why need we , " he said , “ trouble ourselves to find reasons for the poor girl's opposition ? Here are the tracks of our friends , broader and deeper than ever : here they wind down into the hollow ; and there you may ...
Page 216
... creature . That there are Indians in the wood I can well believe , having the evidence of Dodge , here , who professes to have seen six , and killed one , and of my own eyes into the bargain.- Yonder lies one , dead , at this moment ...
... creature . That there are Indians in the wood I can well believe , having the evidence of Dodge , here , who professes to have seen six , and killed one , and of my own eyes into the bargain.- Yonder lies one , dead , at this moment ...
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