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... stood the triple tree . Opposite the gallows was an open gallery , or scaffolding , like the stand at a race - course , which , on state occasions , was crowded with spectators . Without the inclosure were reared se . veral lofty ...
... stood the triple tree . Opposite the gallows was an open gallery , or scaffolding , like the stand at a race - course , which , on state occasions , was crowded with spectators . Without the inclosure were reared se . veral lofty ...
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... stood , Mrs. Wood turned over to obtain a more comfortable position . During this movement , Jack grasped the barrel of his pistol , held in his breath , and motioned to Blue- skin , who had bared a long knife , to keep still . The ...
... stood , Mrs. Wood turned over to obtain a more comfortable position . During this movement , Jack grasped the barrel of his pistol , held in his breath , and motioned to Blue- skin , who had bared a long knife , to keep still . The ...
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... stood on a great bank , overshadowed by trees , from which it peeped forth upon the Great Tappan Zee , so famous among early Dutch navigators . A bright , pure spring welled up at the foot of the green bank ; a wild brook came babbling ...
... stood on a great bank , overshadowed by trees , from which it peeped forth upon the Great Tappan Zee , so famous among early Dutch navigators . A bright , pure spring welled up at the foot of the green bank ; a wild brook came babbling ...
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... stood up stoutly for his hand - breadth of territory ; so that there is not a petty stream nor ragged hill in the neighbourhood , that has not been the subject of long talks and hard battles . The sachem , however , as has been observed ...
... stood up stoutly for his hand - breadth of territory ; so that there is not a petty stream nor ragged hill in the neighbourhood , that has not been the subject of long talks and hard battles . The sachem , however , as has been observed ...
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... stood ready to argue their claims before any tri- bunal of Christendom . This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyvesant , and it roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero ; who , without waiting to discuss claims and ...
... stood ready to argue their claims before any tri- bunal of Christendom . This happened during the chivalrous reign of Peter Stuyvesant , and it roused the ire of that gunpowder old hero ; who , without waiting to discuss claims and ...
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Página 476 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. "My Lord has need of these flowerets gay," The Reaper said, and smiled; "Dear tokens of the earth are they, Where he was once a child. "They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And saints, upon their garments white, These sacred blossoms wear.
Página 77 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Página 145 - Thames' translucent wave Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave ; Where lingering drops from mineral roofs distil, And pointed crystals break the sparkling rill ; Unpolish'd gems no ray on pride bestow, And latent metals innocently glow ; Approach. Great nature studiously behold ! And eye the mine without a wish for gold. Approach ; but awful ! lo ! the ^Egerian grot, Where, nobly pensive, St.
Página 266 - Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.
Página 512 - It would be no crime in me to divert the Nile or Danube from its course, were I able to effect such purposes. Where then is the crime of turning a few ounces of blood from their natural channel?
Página 476 - Have nought but the bearded grain? Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me, I will give them all back again.' He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves.
Página 77 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Página 71 - Remembrance oft shall haunt the shore When Thames in summer wreaths is drest, And oft suspend the dashing oar To bid his gentle spirit rest...
Página 356 - The particular talents by which these misanthropes are distinguished from one another, consist in the various kinds of barbarities which they execute upon their prisoners. Some are celebrated for a happy dexterity in tipping the lion upon them ; which is performed by squeezing the nose flat to the face, and boring out the eyes with their fingers.
Página 123 - Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death : but he shall be surely put to death.