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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... shadow , her beautiful valleys . In your kind letter of the 25th of July , 1845 , you remark : " All that you say about the ardent affection of my friends , is perfectly true . It has been displayed in many , and some very touching ...
... shadow , her beautiful valleys . In your kind letter of the 25th of July , 1845 , you remark : " All that you say about the ardent affection of my friends , is perfectly true . It has been displayed in many , and some very touching ...
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... shadow , was one that might be looked upon but once and 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 ...
... shadow , was one that might be looked upon but once and 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 ...
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... shadow of the long , trembling fringes of the eyelashes , over - arched by the dark eyebrows ; and her full cheek flushed and glowed with its rich vermillion bloom , bursting from the clear white of the maiden's countenance ; while ...
... shadow of the long , trembling fringes of the eyelashes , over - arched by the dark eyebrows ; and her full cheek flushed and glowed with its rich vermillion bloom , bursting from the clear white of the maiden's countenance ; while ...
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... shadow came over the countenance of the fair girl , and her lip quivered , while her hand trembled in the grasp of her uncle . " Father ! said you the word , my uncle ? " she exclaimed , casting her full , dark eyes on his soldier ...
... shadow came over the countenance of the fair girl , and her lip quivered , while her hand trembled in the grasp of her uncle . " Father ! said you the word , my uncle ? " she exclaimed , casting her full , dark eyes on his soldier ...
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... shadow of a tremendous tall tree , a long , lean fellow of a hunter , with a slouching hat covering his lean features , a rough coat o ' skins covering his back , and a rifle on his shoulder- ( you needn't start , Gilbert Gates , it's a ...
... shadow of a tremendous tall tree , a long , lean fellow of a hunter , with a slouching hat covering his lean features , a rough coat o ' skins covering his back , and a rifle on his shoulder- ( you needn't start , Gilbert Gates , it's a ...
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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...