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... enemy at once brave and cruel , resolute and wily , who had shown no disposition to yield them except with life , and who had already stained them with the best blood of the settler . Such evils were well known to exist ; but they ...
... enemy at once brave and cruel , resolute and wily , who had shown no disposition to yield them except with life , and who had already stained them with the best blood of the settler . Such evils were well known to exist ; but they ...
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... refuge for the husbandman and his family , when the enemy was abroad in the land . These stations were mere assem → blages of huts , sometimes in number ap- proaching to villages ; surrounded , or at least connected NICK OF THE WOODS . 5.
... refuge for the husbandman and his family , when the enemy was abroad in the land . These stations were mere assem → blages of huts , sometimes in number ap- proaching to villages ; surrounded , or at least connected NICK OF THE WOODS . 5.
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... enemy . " " Thar's no trusting to years , in a matter of fighting ! " said the Kentuckian : " Thar's my son Tom , that killed his brute at four- teen ; but , I remember , I told you that story . Howsomever , I hold thar's no In- juns on ...
... enemy . " " Thar's no trusting to years , in a matter of fighting ! " said the Kentuckian : " Thar's my son Tom , that killed his brute at four- teen ; but , I remember , I told you that story . Howsomever , I hold thar's no In- juns on ...
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... enemy . ' " Thar's no trusting to years , in a matter of fighting ! " said the Kentuckian : " Thar's my son Tom , that killed his brute at four- teen ; but , I remember , I told you that story . Howsomever , I hold thar's no In- juns on ...
... enemy . ' " Thar's no trusting to years , in a matter of fighting ! " said the Kentuckian : " Thar's my son Tom , that killed his brute at four- teen ; but , I remember , I told you that story . Howsomever , I hold thar's no In- juns on ...
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... enemies of their little state , the murderers of their wives and children , was a canon of belief imprinted on the heart of every man in the district ; and Nathan's failure to do so , however caused by his conscientious aver- sion to ...
... enemies of their little state , the murderers of their wives and children , was a canon of belief imprinted on the heart of every man in the district ; and Nathan's failure to do so , however caused by his conscientious aver- sion to ...
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