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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... silence of the air , scarce broken by the distant note of the night - bird or the murmur of the rushing stream , gave an air of thought and solemnity to the scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the massive ...
... silence of the air , scarce broken by the distant note of the night - bird or the murmur of the rushing stream , gave an air of thought and solemnity to the scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the massive ...
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... silent . Your cousin , Rose , the mischievous minx , is not here to interrupt us with her girlish pranks ; you know she is on a visit to her uncle , Philip Walford , down at Rock .Farm , seven miles away . The hour is still and silent ...
... silent . Your cousin , Rose , the mischievous minx , is not here to interrupt us with her girlish pranks ; you know she is on a visit to her uncle , Philip Walford , down at Rock .Farm , seven miles away . The hour is still and silent ...
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... silence that says more than volumes . Ask the gossip at the fireside , -speak of the Walfords - ask who they were and what they were , and she will fill your ears with tales of horror and legends of terror ! The Walford's are a CURSED ...
... silence that says more than volumes . Ask the gossip at the fireside , -speak of the Walfords - ask who they were and what they were , and she will fill your ears with tales of horror and legends of terror ! The Walford's are a CURSED ...
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... silent cogitation on the whitened floor , which he regarded with a fixed moody stare that seemed to indicate that his meditations were any where but with the present scene . Gotlieb Hoff , seated at one end of the table , had but one ...
... silent cogitation on the whitened floor , which he regarded with a fixed moody stare that seemed to indicate that his meditations were any where but with the present scene . Gotlieb Hoff , seated at one end of the table , had but one ...
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... silent temple , * with faint and flickering beams , now tinting the plain and rough - fashioned benches with sudden light , now shooting a gleam into some dark corner , and lighting up the recesses of a deep - silled window , or dis ...
... silent temple , * with faint and flickering beams , now tinting the plain and rough - fashioned benches with sudden light , now shooting a gleam into some dark corner , and lighting up the recesses of a deep - silled window , or dis ...
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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...