Stories of American Life, Volumen2Mary Russell Mitford H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830 |
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... church , and from the mi- sery in which the parties lived , it might be inferred that the matches were made anywhere else but in heaven . I will relate the story , as it is rather a curious one , though I admit not at all romantic . I ...
... church , and from the mi- sery in which the parties lived , it might be inferred that the matches were made anywhere else but in heaven . I will relate the story , as it is rather a curious one , though I admit not at all romantic . I ...
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... church , " said he , " built far back in the last century . It has four bells , two or three of which are cracked , and on the religious festivals they express the public joy in the most horrid jangle you ever heard . The walls of the ...
... church , " said he , " built far back in the last century . It has four bells , two or three of which are cracked , and on the religious festivals they express the public joy in the most horrid jangle you ever heard . The walls of the ...
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... church , when we are more at leisure . ” That day my venerable friend dined with more conviviality than usual . He made me taste his Chateau Margaux , his Medoc , his Lafitte , & c . for these planters keep a good stock of old wines in ...
... church , when we are more at leisure . ” That day my venerable friend dined with more conviviality than usual . He made me taste his Chateau Margaux , his Medoc , his Lafitte , & c . for these planters keep a good stock of old wines in ...
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... church forbids the happy ceremony of marriage . I have often thought , that if the ob- servances of our church had been regulated with a particular view to the climate of Louisiana , the fast of Lent would have been put a month or two ...
... church forbids the happy ceremony of marriage . I have often thought , that if the ob- servances of our church had been regulated with a particular view to the climate of Louisiana , the fast of Lent would have been put a month or two ...
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... church of Adayes , to be married by the good Bal- tazar Polo ; and that year was long afterwards re- membered in the parish of Natchitoches , under the name of l'an des nôces , the year of weddings . " Do you know , Richard , " said ...
... church of Adayes , to be married by the good Bal- tazar Polo ; and that year was long afterwards re- membered in the parish of Natchitoches , under the name of l'an des nôces , the year of weddings . " Do you know , Richard , " said ...
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Adayes Algesiras Amelia arms Baltazar Polo Balty beautiful became began believe Billy Morgan bosom bride Brown Bess called Callisthenics Captain Cherry Valley church deer Doctor door eyes face father feelings fire Firkins forest frigate gaze Gibraltar Grey habits half hand happy head heard heart heaven Helen Helen Fraser Hippolyte honour hope hour husband Indians Johnson Julia Kirkwood La Ruche Latimer Lemoine length live look Madame Labedoyère manner marriage married means ment messmates mind Miss Fin Miss Longchild Montagu Moreton morning mother mysterious Natchitoches nature never night occasion old gentleman party passed person Pete Pow-wow present quiet quiet company Richard round sailors seemed seen Sir William Johnson sisters smile soon soul spirit stood story strange Teresa thing thought tion Tom Brown took wife wild woman wonder youth
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Página 253 - A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent ; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage ; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff : if that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If...
Página 10 - It was very evident too, from the dryness of the snow, and the brittleness of the twigs, which snapped off as he brushed his way through the thickets, that the weather was intensely cold; yet the perspiration was rolling in large drops from his brow. He stopped at a clear spring, and thrusting his hands into the cold water, attempted to carry a portion of it to his lips; but the element recoiled and hissed, as if his hands and lips had been composed of red hot iron. Pete felt quite puzzled when he...
Página 123 - Both warbling of one~song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; Hut yet a union in partition, — Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart ; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Página 299 - To execution. Dost thou ask her crime ? SHE WHIPPED TWO FEMALE 'PRENTICES TO DEATH, AND HID THEM IN THE COAL HOLE.
Página 214 - But thou, a School-boy, to the sea hadst carried Undying recollections ; Nature there Was with thee ; she, who loved us both, she still Was with thee ; and even so didst thou become A silent Poet ; from the solitude Of the vast sea didst bring a watchful heart Still couchant, an inevitable ear, And an eye practised like a blind man's touch.
Página 158 - ... time of the night they would, Morgan was seen sitting upright in his hammock, with his eyes glaring wide open. When his turn came to take' his watch upon deck, his conduct was equally strange. He would stand stock still in one place, gazing at the stars, or the ocean, apparently unconscious of his situation ; and when roused by his companions, fall flat on the deck in a swoon.
Página 165 - That very night the ghost made its appearance on board the frigate, and passed its cold wet hand over the face of Tom Brown, to whom Morgan had left his watch and chest of clothes. The poor fellow bawled out lustily; but before any pursuit could be made, the ghost had disappeared in the forward part of the ship as usual. After this Billy again appeared two or three times alternately to some one of his old messmates ; sometimes in the town, at others on board the frigate, but always in the dead of...
Página 143 - ... to attack ; and even that flank was rendered difficult of approach, by resting upon a steep ridge.
Página 173 - R— followed him into the house, where he found a comely goodnatured dame, and two or three yellow-haired boys and girls, all in a fluster at the stranger. The house had an air of comfort, and the mistress, by her stirring activity, accompanied with smiling looks withal, seemed pleased at the rare incident of a stranger's entering their door.
Página 152 - A skirmishing was, however, kept up by both sides — the Indians sallying out of their works by small parties, firing, and suddenly retreating — making the woods at the same time to resound with their war-whoops, piercing the air from point to point as though the tangled forest were alive with their grim-visaged warriors. Correctly judging that the hill upon his right was occupied by the savages, Gen.