Katy of Catoctin: Or, The Chain-breakers; a National RomanceD. Appleton, 1886 - 567 páginas |
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... mountain , but all gold ! " So said Lloyd Quantrell , the gunner , looking down from the South Mountain upon Middletown or Catoctin Valley , an October Saturday in the year 1859 . The mellow light of afternoon touched or bathed the ...
... mountain , but all gold ! " So said Lloyd Quantrell , the gunner , looking down from the South Mountain upon Middletown or Catoctin Valley , an October Saturday in the year 1859 . The mellow light of afternoon touched or bathed the ...
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... mountain in- truded , which had begun a race with the South Mountain for the Pennsylvania line , but stopped in sight of the white clusters of set- tlement toward Hagerstown , discouraged at their beauty and multi- tude , like Balaam's ...
... mountain in- truded , which had begun a race with the South Mountain for the Pennsylvania line , but stopped in sight of the white clusters of set- tlement toward Hagerstown , discouraged at their beauty and multi- tude , like Balaam's ...
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... mountain ? " Lloyd Quantrell said . " Let me see ! Why , I would clean out the whole region , like a Norman king , and make it a hunt- ing park . All the wild beasts once here should return again — none but native American beasts , you ...
... mountain ? " Lloyd Quantrell said . " Let me see ! Why , I would clean out the whole region , like a Norman king , and make it a hunt- ing park . All the wild beasts once here should return again — none but native American beasts , you ...
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... mountain - slope , and the older man , changing his look to one more neighborly , said , in an impressive yet kind voice : " Hardly a good Christian business , Mr. Quantrell ! A business has got to be good , I think , sir , to insure ...
... mountain - slope , and the older man , changing his look to one more neighborly , said , in an impressive yet kind voice : " Hardly a good Christian business , Mr. Quantrell ! A business has got to be good , I think , sir , to insure ...
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... mountain at this point were not enchanted , and these three serious mountaineers only appearances or illusions . But he heard articulated sounds proceeding from that old man's beard , and the word " Amen ! " pronounced with respectful ...
... mountain at this point were not enchanted , and these three serious mountaineers only appearances or illusions . But he heard articulated sounds proceeding from that old man's beard , and the word " Amen ! " pronounced with respectful ...
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Katy of Catoctin: Or, The Chain-breakers; a National Romance George Alfred Townsend Vista completa - 1886 |
Katy of Catoctin: Or, the Chain-breakers, a National Romance George Alfred Townsend Vista completa - 1895 |
Katy of Catoctin: Or, The Chain-breakers; a National Romance George Alfred Townsend Vista completa - 1886 |
Términos y frases comunes
50 cents Abel Quantrell abolitionists accordion actor Albion arms Ashby asked Atzerodt Baltimore Beall blood Booth bridge Bryantown Captain Catoctin cents church cloth cried dark door Dunker exclaimed eyes face father fire Ford's Theatre girl hand Hannah Ritner Harper's Ferry Hazlett head heard heart Henry Winter Davis Herold horse Hugh Fenwick Isaac Smith Jake Bosler Job Snowberger John Brown Kagi Katy Bosler Katy's kill kissed Lehman Light Pittson Lincoln Lloyd Quantrell looked Luther Bosler marry Maryland mother mountain negro Nelly Harbaugh never night Payne pistol poor Potomac President prisoners py Jing Quantrell's replied ring river road seemed side slavery slaves soul spirit spoke Stevens stone stood street Surratt tears theatre thought tick-a-tock-a took turned Valley Virginia voice walked Washington Watson Brown wife woman wonder young
Pasajes populares
Página 529 - But why do I talk of death? That phantom of grisly bone, I hardly fear his terrible shape, It seems so like my own — It seems so like my own, Because of the fasts I keep; O, God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Página 567 - And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
Página 485 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphans, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.
Página 299 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done, as I have always freely admitted I have done, in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments — I submit : so let it be done.
Página 18 - Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat — Come hither, come hither, come hither! Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. Who doth ambition shun And loves to live i' the sun, Seeking the food he eats And pleased with what he gets — Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Página 438 - Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that ; That sense and worth, o'er a' the earth, May bear the gree, and a' that. For a
Página 334 - You have among you many a purchased slave, Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules, You use in abject and in slavish parts, Because you bought them...
Página 162 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire ? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt ; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Página 282 - Who was her father? Who was her mother ? Had she a sister? Had she a brother ? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other?
Página 437 - Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.