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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... forest , there is a lonely cabin , tenanted by a friend of the British cause . Meet at this cabin to - morrow night - meet me at sundown - meet me with twenty good stout dragoons , whose hands are sure , as their hearts are daring . Let ...
... forest , there is a lonely cabin , tenanted by a friend of the British cause . Meet at this cabin to - morrow night - meet me at sundown - meet me with twenty good stout dragoons , whose hands are sure , as their hearts are daring . Let ...
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... forest oak . " Ask me not , young stranger , ask me not how I procured the pacquet , " spoke the old man , in a bold yet hushed and whispered voice . " Hug it closely to thy heart . Part not with it , save with thy life . Away with it ...
... forest oak . " Ask me not , young stranger , ask me not how I procured the pacquet , " spoke the old man , in a bold yet hushed and whispered voice . " Hug it closely to thy heart . Part not with it , save with thy life . Away with it ...
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... forest , rising behind forest , a vast lake of foliage , undulating with the impulse of the night breeze , while winding around the base of the hill , from whose summit arose the Grange , the waves of the Brandywine - now shadowed by ...
... forest , rising behind forest , a vast lake of foliage , undulating with the impulse of the night breeze , while winding around the base of the hill , from whose summit arose the Grange , the waves of the Brandywine - now shadowed by ...
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... forest ! —the haystack was all a flame . The fire whizzed , and cracked , and hissed , winding around the stack , shooting up to the star- lit sky , flashing abroad over the meadow , lighting up Wild - Wood Grange , crimsoning the ...
... forest ! —the haystack was all a flame . The fire whizzed , and cracked , and hissed , winding around the stack , shooting up to the star- lit sky , flashing abroad over the meadow , lighting up Wild - Wood Grange , crimsoning the ...
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... meadow land , and now broken by spurs of the forest wild , thrown boldly forth , until they reached within an hundred yards of the brick farm house , casting their long shadows over field and plain , with 72 THE ROSE OF BRANDYWINE .
... meadow land , and now broken by spurs of the forest wild , thrown boldly forth , until they reached within an hundred yards of the brick farm house , casting their long shadows over field and plain , with 72 THE ROSE OF BRANDYWINE .
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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...