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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... maiden , Mary , his daughter , come to reason , well . At all events , friend Hamsdorff , let thy men have their pieces loaded - thee knows thee orders ! I , myself , will give the word ! " And , as he spoke , the smooth and insinuating ...
... maiden , Mary , his daughter , come to reason , well . At all events , friend Hamsdorff , let thy men have their pieces loaded - thee knows thee orders ! I , myself , will give the word ! " And , as he spoke , the smooth and insinuating ...
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... maiden's countenance ; while , heaving upward amid the folds of the snow - white robe , her bosom rose and fell with that beautiful pulsation which now avoids and now wooes the light ; and from the calm , open forehead to the small and ...
... maiden's countenance ; while , heaving upward amid the folds of the snow - white robe , her bosom rose and fell with that beautiful pulsation which now avoids and now wooes the light ; and from the calm , open forehead to the small and ...
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... maiden by the hand and led her toward the cen- tral window . 66 By the sword of Lovat , when I look upon your fair face , and mark the rich bloom deepening over your cheek , the clear light flash- ing from your full , dark eye , the lip ...
... maiden by the hand and led her toward the cen- tral window . 66 By the sword of Lovat , when I look upon your fair face , and mark the rich bloom deepening over your cheek , the clear light flash- ing from your full , dark eye , the lip ...
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... maiden's countenance , clear and snowy- white , deepened into ruby on her lips , and bloomed into a delicate carmine on the smooth and velvet cheeks . " Blanche , you spoke the name of father ? " said Colonel Frazier , draw- ing the maiden ...
... maiden's countenance , clear and snowy- white , deepened into ruby on her lips , and bloomed into a delicate carmine on the smooth and velvet cheeks . " Blanche , you spoke the name of father ? " said Colonel Frazier , draw- ing the maiden ...
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... maiden , leaning on the shoulder of her uncle , as they paced along toward the western balcony . " Lovely- most lovely ! " 66 ' Look , Blanche - look to the west ! " continued Colonel Frazier in that same changed tone . 66 Through these ...
... maiden , leaning on the shoulder of her uncle , as they paced along toward the western balcony . " Lovely- most lovely ! " 66 ' Look , Blanche - look to the west ! " continued Colonel Frazier in that same changed tone . 66 Through these ...
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Blanche of Brandywine, Or, September the Eleventh, 1777: A Romance ... George Lippard Vista completa - 1846 |
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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...