Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 352 páginas |
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... across , passing hand over hand along his trot - line ; but nobody believed Old Alpha , because he once said he caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds . Others affirmed he slid across on a film of petroleum ; 16 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
... across , passing hand over hand along his trot - line ; but nobody believed Old Alpha , because he once said he caught a catfish weighing ninety pounds . Others affirmed he slid across on a film of petroleum ; 16 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
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... Once upon the summit , he paused , turned about , and gazed mournfully down upon the surpassing rich and noble valley he had crossed , but in which he had been received with so much flouting and contumely . He struck his staff into the ...
... Once upon the summit , he paused , turned about , and gazed mournfully down upon the surpassing rich and noble valley he had crossed , but in which he had been received with so much flouting and contumely . He struck his staff into the ...
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... once , they made a hole quite through his head . His black moustache was so long that he could lap it around his head and bring the ends together in front . On the nar- row , upright collar of his coat he had golden stars , which ...
... once , they made a hole quite through his head . His black moustache was so long that he could lap it around his head and bring the ends together in front . On the nar- row , upright collar of his coat he had golden stars , which ...
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... once maintained by them on the crowning summits . Beyond the river - ranges all the face of the earth was still somber with the ancient gloom of the forest , and penetrated only by the bear and the ferocious panther . At length the ...
... once maintained by them on the crowning summits . Beyond the river - ranges all the face of the earth was still somber with the ancient gloom of the forest , and penetrated only by the bear and the ferocious panther . At length the ...
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... The assembled multitude greeted this triumph with pro- longed and vigorous exclamations of " Ugh , ugh ! " and at once Tammany was chosen sachem by acclamation . ST . SHODDY . Gars auld claes look amaist as 38 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
... The assembled multitude greeted this triumph with pro- longed and vigorous exclamations of " Ugh , ugh ! " and at once Tammany was chosen sachem by acclamation . ST . SHODDY . Gars auld claes look amaist as 38 MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
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Página 162 - Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Página 311 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Página 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Página 317 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Página 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Página 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Página 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Página 300 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Página 80 - Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.