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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... cried the slender , little man , as he shuffled along the floor , diving his hands in the spacious pockets of his breeches , which hung ungartered at the knee , " I tell ye I'm mad , regular , right down mad . Aye , aye , Tom ...
... cried the slender , little man , as he shuffled along the floor , diving his hands in the spacious pockets of his breeches , which hung ungartered at the knee , " I tell ye I'm mad , regular , right down mad . Aye , aye , Tom ...
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... cried , pushing Gotlieb from the soldier- " d'ye want to pick a fight with that bloodhound ? Wait till some other time , then . Look ! you've woke the porpoise ! " " Where's Captain Howard ? Where's my beef - steak - be gaw ! " cried ...
... cried , pushing Gotlieb from the soldier- " d'ye want to pick a fight with that bloodhound ? Wait till some other time , then . Look ! you've woke the porpoise ! " " Where's Captain Howard ? Where's my beef - steak - be gaw ! " cried ...
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... cried the trooper.- " And then his daughter , Pretty Polly - ah , ha ! -The Captain's a sad dog , and so is Gilbert ... cries the mate . ' Don't care for that , ' says the Captain , ' ship sinking or not , it's in d- -d bad taste to wake ...
... cried the trooper.- " And then his daughter , Pretty Polly - ah , ha ! -The Captain's a sad dog , and so is Gilbert ... cries the mate . ' Don't care for that , ' says the Captain , ' ship sinking or not , it's in d- -d bad taste to wake ...
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... cried , as his hand was upon the latch of the door , " you will make me as mad as yourself ! My brain burns like a coal of fire - let's into the open air ! " " Be gaw ! " muttered Sergeant Hamsdorff , " the Captain might a spoke to me ...
... cried , as his hand was upon the latch of the door , " you will make me as mad as yourself ! My brain burns like a coal of fire - let's into the open air ! " " Be gaw ! " muttered Sergeant Hamsdorff , " the Captain might a spoke to me ...
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... cried Blanche , as her eye flashed and her bo- som heaved . Why all this bloodshed - this wrong — this outrage ? " 66 " I will tell you , Blanche , " cried Frazier , turning his flashing countenance to the moonbeams . " The footstep of ...
... cried Blanche , as her eye flashed and her bo- som heaved . Why all this bloodshed - this wrong — this outrage ? " 66 " I will tell you , Blanche , " cried Frazier , turning his flashing countenance to the moonbeams . " The footstep of ...
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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...