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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... scene was strange and solemn . The light of a dim and smoking lamp , standing upon the massive oaken table , fell in fitful gleams around the small apartment , with its closed window - pannels , its walls , confined and compressed ...
... scene was strange and solemn . The light of a dim and smoking lamp , standing upon the massive oaken table , fell in fitful gleams around the small apartment , with its closed window - pannels , its walls , confined and compressed ...
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... scene . There were the warm flashes of light falling round the apartment , red- dening the rafters and glowing along the smoky walls ; there was the massive oaken table , with the light falling full and strongly on the muscular form of ...
... scene . There were the warm flashes of light falling round the apartment , red- dening the rafters and glowing along the smoky walls ; there was the massive oaken table , with the light falling full and strongly on the muscular form of ...
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... scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the massive side- board glittering with the signs of festival hospitality ; the high - backed chairs , the circular mirror over the mantel , and the perpendicular glasses ...
... scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the massive side- board glittering with the signs of festival hospitality ; the high - backed chairs , the circular mirror over the mantel , and the perpendicular glasses ...
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... scene is one of rustic , nay , of pastoral beauty . Is it not Blanche ? " " It is it is ! " murmured the maiden , as she gazed wonderingly upon her uncle's face , warming with sudden enthusiasm— " lovely as a dream ! " " On a scene ...
... scene is one of rustic , nay , of pastoral beauty . Is it not Blanche ? " " It is it is ! " murmured the maiden , as she gazed wonderingly upon her uncle's face , warming with sudden enthusiasm— " lovely as a dream ! " " On a scene ...
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... scene . At his heels were the blood - hounds thirsting for their prey - but on and on he sped , while closer and closer to his breast he pressed the child - the fair and lovely child - scarce nine years old - the girl - his sister — on ...
... scene . At his heels were the blood - hounds thirsting for their prey - but on and on he sped , while closer and closer to his breast he pressed the child - the fair and lovely child - scarce nine years old - the girl - his sister — on ...
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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...