The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, Volumen1Harper & Brothers, 1835 - 12 páginas |
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... gone forth . Without further pause or in- quiry , Sanutee turned , and taking his way through the body of the town , soon gained the river . Singling forth a canoe , hollowed out from a cypress , and which lay with an hundred others ...
... gone forth . Without further pause or in- quiry , Sanutee turned , and taking his way through the body of the town , soon gained the river . Singling forth a canoe , hollowed out from a cypress , and which lay with an hundred others ...
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... gone around it , took no manner of heed of the friendly hail which the old pastor had uttered on seeing him approach . man . Thus pursuing a winding route , and as much as possible keeping the river banks , while avoiding the * One of ...
... gone around it , took no manner of heed of the friendly hail which the old pastor had uttered on seeing him approach . man . Thus pursuing a winding route , and as much as possible keeping the river banks , while avoiding the * One of ...
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... to make any further conveyance , or enter into any new treaty for its disposal . But this had not de- terred the settlers , many of whom had gone consider- ably beyond the limit , and suffered no interruption . 26 THE YEMASSEE .
... to make any further conveyance , or enter into any new treaty for its disposal . But this had not de- terred the settlers , many of whom had gone consider- ably beyond the limit , and suffered no interruption . 26 THE YEMASSEE .
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... gone wid him . " " Who were they ? " " Sir Edmund Bellinger , sa - lib close ' pon Ashee- poh - Mass Stephen Latham , and nodder - I no hab he name . " " Very well - they will answer well enough for commissioners . Where have you left ...
... gone wid him . " " Who were they ? " " Sir Edmund Bellinger , sa - lib close ' pon Ashee- poh - Mass Stephen Latham , and nodder - I no hab he name . " " Very well - they will answer well enough for commissioners . Where have you left ...
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... gone so far as actu representation in the coloni tions of the country as wer sects . The region in which in this exclusion ; and with stern , sour stickler — a good overwise one - wedded to o and perhaps like a very exter serving forms ...
... gone so far as actu representation in the coloni tions of the country as wer sects . The region in which in this exclusion ; and with stern , sour stickler — a good overwise one - wedded to o and perhaps like a very exter serving forms ...
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approach arms arrow ATALANTIS beautiful Bess Matthews Block House blood bosom brave broad arrow brother captain Carolinians Charlestown Chorley cried crowd DAVID BREWSTER doom Echotee enemy English Engravings Enoree-Mattee exclaimed father fear feeling fierce forest forest warrior Gabriel Gabriel Harrison glance Granger Grayson guarda-costa hand hatchet hear heart Hector Huspah Indian Ishiagaska knife know thee lands LL.D lodge look Malatchie Manneyto Master Harrison Matiwan mind Mossa mother nation nestoga Occo Occonestoga old chief Opitchi-Manneyto pastor Pocota-ligo Port Royal Portrait present prophet reply Richard Chorley river sailor Sanutee savage scalp seaman secured seemed skin slave song soon speak speech spirit spoke stern stood strike strong swamp SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON thing Thou art Thou hast tion tomahawk torch trader treaty tree tribes tumulus turned vessel victim voice vols watch Wherefore wild words Yemassee young chief young warrior
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Página 5 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood : I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, And play i
Página 5 - In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend; And if the means be just, the conduct true, Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.
Página 172 - ... her hands grasping the neighboring tree, feeble, tottering, and depending upon it for that support which her own limbs almost entirely denied her. With her movement, however, came the full development of the powerful spell and dreadful mystery before her. As her feet receded, though but a single pace, to the tree against which she now rested, the...
Página 172 - She was at length conscious enough to perceive and to feel all her' danger.; but terror had denied her the strength necessary to fly from her dreadful enemy. There still the eye glared beautifully bright and piercing upon her own ; and, seemingly in a spirit of sport...
Página 219 - ... own, convulsed like his; and her action that of one reckless of all things in the way of the forward progress she was making to the person of her child. She cried aloud as she came, with a voice that rang like a sudden death-bell through the ring: — " Would you keep the mother from her boy, and he to be lost to her for ever?
Página 171 - ... the effect, for which it really seemed intended, of bringing back to her a portion of the consciousness she seemed so totally to have been deprived of before. She strove to move from before the beautiful but terrible presence, but for a while she strove in vain. The rich, star-like glance still riveted her own, and the subtle fascination kept her bound. The mental energies, however, with the moment of their greatest trial, now gathered suddenly to her aid; and, with a desperate effort, but with...
Página 172 - ... ring, like that of a watch when wound up with the verge broken, announced the nature of that splendid yet dangerous presence, in the form of the monstrous rattlesnake, now but a few feet before her, lying coiled at the bottom of a beautiful shrub, with which, to her dreaming eye, many of its own glorious hues had become associated. She was, at length, conscious enough to perceive and to feel all her danger, but terror had denied her the strength necessary to fly from her dreadful enemy.