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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... figure of Clarence , half veiled in a drooping military cloak , carelessly disposed along an armed chair , with the nether limbs defended by Hessian boots , resting on the oaken table , was also disclosed in the lamp beams , while his ...
... figure of Clarence , half veiled in a drooping military cloak , carelessly disposed along an armed chair , with the nether limbs defended by Hessian boots , resting on the oaken table , was also disclosed in the lamp beams , while his ...
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... figure of mine host of the Green Tree , as pacing along the oaken floor , with a peevish , snarling voice , and an extravagant movement of his long , bony arms and talon - like fingers , he gave his own ideas and opinions on matters and ...
... figure of mine host of the Green Tree , as pacing along the oaken floor , with a peevish , snarling voice , and an extravagant movement of his long , bony arms and talon - like fingers , he gave his own ideas and opinions on matters and ...
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... figure of the picture , with his pale , ague - ish face contorted into an expression of combined peevishness , ill- humor , sarcasm , and misanthropy - the large , wide mouth , drawn half way up the sallow cheek , the goggle - eyes ...
... figure of the picture , with his pale , ague - ish face contorted into an expression of combined peevishness , ill- humor , sarcasm , and misanthropy - the large , wide mouth , drawn half way up the sallow cheek , the goggle - eyes ...
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... figures , muffled in long drooping military cloaks surmounted by trooper's caps , with nodding plumes , advanced towards the table . " Landlord , our horses , quick ! " said THE BRAVO TROOPER AND THE QUIET GILBERT GATES . 23.
... figures , muffled in long drooping military cloaks surmounted by trooper's caps , with nodding plumes , advanced towards the table . " Landlord , our horses , quick ! " said THE BRAVO TROOPER AND THE QUIET GILBERT GATES . 23.
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... figure , the gaunt form of the stranger was attired in the drab coat , the drab vest , and breeches of the Quaker faith ; and his broad brimmed hat , half screened from the lamp beams , a long , thin visage , marked by a sharp ...
... figure , the gaunt form of the stranger was attired in the drab coat , the drab vest , and breeches of the Quaker faith ; and his broad brimmed hat , half screened from the lamp beams , a long , thin visage , marked by a sharp ...
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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...