Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of BrandywineG. B. Zieber & Company, 1846 - 343 páginas |
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... brother - orphans . I owe them no love , for I was always taught to regard a robber as a robber , whether he wore rags , or sat in a council chamber . You are bound to me , then , by strong ties , but not by the ties of party spirit ...
... brother - orphans . I owe them no love , for I was always taught to regard a robber as a robber , whether he wore rags , or sat in a council chamber . You are bound to me , then , by strong ties , but not by the ties of party spirit ...
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... brother ! And , for what , pray , does Lord Percy do all this ? Why , for the very questionable purpose of falling in love with a country Phillis , daughter of some retired Provincial Colonel , who served in Brad- dock's time , and who ...
... brother ! And , for what , pray , does Lord Percy do all this ? Why , for the very questionable purpose of falling in love with a country Phillis , daughter of some retired Provincial Colonel , who served in Brad- dock's time , and who ...
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... his native hearth . Two brothers were strewn along the quiet garden walks --- their limbs hewn and hacked , and their faces carved with the sword - cut and the dagger - thrust ! THE EXILE AND THE MAIDEN - NORMAN FRAZIER ETC. 29.
... his native hearth . Two brothers were strewn along the quiet garden walks --- their limbs hewn and hacked , and their faces carved with the sword - cut and the dagger - thrust ! THE EXILE AND THE MAIDEN - NORMAN FRAZIER ETC. 29.
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... brother , a youth of twenty , was stealing along the dark grey hills , while the dusky light of morning broke over ... brothers , and - aye , did they - they , hirelings of Hanover , outraged the mother of my birth ! " Blanche spoke no ...
... brother , a youth of twenty , was stealing along the dark grey hills , while the dusky light of morning broke over ... brothers , and - aye , did they - they , hirelings of Hanover , outraged the mother of my birth ! " Blanche spoke no ...
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... brothers . They dwelt on a place called Rock Farm , about seven miles south - west of this Grange , and their name was ... Brother , named Philip Walford - he was a widower , and his wife had scarce been dead a year when he sought my ...
... brothers . They dwelt on a place called Rock Farm , about seven miles south - west of this Grange , and their name was ... Brother , named Philip Walford - he was a widower , and his wife had scarce been dead a year when he sought my ...
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Términos y frases comunes
arms band banner battle beautiful beheld blacksmith Blanche blood blue bosom Brandywine brave breast British British army brow Captain Chadd's Ford cheek Clerwoode cloud Colonel Frazier Continental army Count Pulaski cried dark eyes David Walford dead death Debbil deep door exclaimed face father fell flashed forest gallant gallant band gazed Gilbert Gates girl glance glare gleaming glittering Gotlieb Hoff grasp graveyard green green velvet grey hair hand head heart Hessian hill Hirpley horse hurrah knife La Fayette Lady Isidore light lips look Lord Cornwallis Lord Percy maiden Mayland mingled Monthermer murmured muttered pacquet pale Philip Walford Quaker quivering Randulph the Prince Riders rifle Rose ruffian Sampson scene scythe shadow shone shoulder shouted shrieked side silent slouching hat smile smoke soldier soul steed stood stout strange stranger sword terrible thee tone trees trembling troopers valley voice war horse Washington waving whispered wild woods word yonder
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Página 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Página 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Página 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...