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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... , content to sit unnoticed near the side of this proud girl ; content to mark the bloom on her cheek , myself unmarked ; content to sit silently , listening to the low , soft music of her voice , whose lightest THE DOOM . 13.
... , content to sit unnoticed near the side of this proud girl ; content to mark the bloom on her cheek , myself unmarked ; content to sit silently , listening to the low , soft music of her voice , whose lightest THE DOOM . 13.
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... cheek— " She waved her hand proudly to me - she bowed with a smile of keen and biting sarcasm — The neice of a Provincial gentleman were not a fitting bride for the proud English lord , whose pleasure it is , to fight for the cause ...
... cheek— " She waved her hand proudly to me - she bowed with a smile of keen and biting sarcasm — The neice of a Provincial gentleman were not a fitting bride for the proud English lord , whose pleasure it is , to fight for the cause ...
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... cheeks , and the wide oyster - like eyes , all shining in the light - he cast a sudden gaze at the portly soldier sleeping at one end of the oaken table , and very deliberately proceeded to make a face - and an expressive face it was ...
... cheeks , and the wide oyster - like eyes , all shining in the light - he cast a sudden gaze at the portly soldier sleeping at one end of the oaken table , and very deliberately proceeded to make a face - and an expressive face it was ...
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... cheek , the goggle - eyes starting from their sockets , the high , narrow forehead , all intricate with wrinkles and with frowns ; and first and foremost , beacon - like and prominent , twisted in an opposite direction from his mouth ...
... cheek , the goggle - eyes starting from their sockets , the high , narrow forehead , all intricate with wrinkles and with frowns ; and first and foremost , beacon - like and prominent , twisted in an opposite direction from his mouth ...
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... cheek , and flashes from thy eye ! " " Name him not , my uncle , name not the proud English lordling . He knelt to me with proposals of dishonor he knelt to me ; and , as he knelt , the blood of my race throbbed in my temples and 4 THE ...
... cheek , and flashes from thy eye ! " " Name him not , my uncle , name not the proud English lordling . He knelt to me with proposals of dishonor he knelt to me ; and , as he knelt , the blood of my race throbbed in my temples and 4 THE ...
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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...