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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... never - ending fire , imagined by priests , or taught by the dogmas of superstition ! Aye - curl your lip with that in- credulous smile , and laugh in my face , if it pleases you ! But , Clarence , there is a hell - dark , fearful and ...
... never - ending fire , imagined by priests , or taught by the dogmas of superstition ! Aye - curl your lip with that in- credulous smile , and laugh in my face , if it pleases you ! But , Clarence , there is a hell - dark , fearful and ...
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... never forgotten . The features small and delicate , and pale and faded in hue , were relieved by luxuriant masses of jet black hair , sweeping aside from the calm and unwrinkled brow , and falling in glossy ringlets to the very shoul ...
... never forgotten . The features small and delicate , and pale and faded in hue , were relieved by luxuriant masses of jet black hair , sweeping aside from the calm and unwrinkled brow , and falling in glossy ringlets to the very shoul ...
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... the death . I want to ask you one question . Sit down for a moment , and hear me . There now - I never like professions of friendship - they're in such bad taste . But , Percy , I know there is something preying THE DOOM . 15.
... the death . I want to ask you one question . Sit down for a moment , and hear me . There now - I never like professions of friendship - they're in such bad taste . But , Percy , I know there is something preying THE DOOM . 15.
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... never start thus suddenly , never frown thus darkly . I ' faith , you were wrong - wrong , Blanche , wrong . What ! discredit the sincerity of the Englisher ? Ha , ha , Blanche , by the sword of old Simon Lovat , you are a sad girl ...
... never start thus suddenly , never frown thus darkly . I ' faith , you were wrong - wrong , Blanche , wrong . What ! discredit the sincerity of the Englisher ? Ha , ha , Blanche , by the sword of old Simon Lovat , you are a sad girl ...
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... never found residence in the loftiest temple or the proudest palace , and it seemed well fitted for the home of rustic pleasures and woodland joys , combined with the luxuries of arti ficial life . Sitting beside the centre - table , in ...
... never found residence in the loftiest temple or the proudest palace , and it seemed well fitted for the home of rustic pleasures and woodland joys , combined with the luxuries of arti ficial life . Sitting beside the centre - table , in ...
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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...