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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... turned to the door , when Clarence suddenly arose from his seat , and hurrying forward took Lord George by the hand . " A word with you , Percy , " he said , in a low , quick voice . " I am a fop , and you may think me a heartless ...
... turned to the door , when Clarence suddenly arose from his seat , and hurrying forward took Lord George by the hand . " A word with you , Percy , " he said , in a low , quick voice . " I am a fop , and you may think me a heartless ...
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... turned to glowing red by the light which ever and anon fell upon the slim and bending figure of mine host of the Green Tree , as pacing along the oaken floor , with a peevish , snarling voice , and an extravagant movement of his long ...
... turned to glowing red by the light which ever and anon fell upon the slim and bending figure of mine host of the Green Tree , as pacing along the oaken floor , with a peevish , snarling voice , and an extravagant movement of his long ...
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... turned towards the growling host . " Why , I looks down from de hill up at Coonel Frazier's every day , and , mein Gott ! what lots o ' people I see here ! Thee tav - ern , Hirpley , " he continued , with a slight approach to the Quaker ...
... turned towards the growling host . " Why , I looks down from de hill up at Coonel Frazier's every day , and , mein Gott ! what lots o ' people I see here ! Thee tav - ern , Hirpley , " he continued , with a slight approach to the Quaker ...
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... turned to a deep and blushing scarlet that would have made a frozen man warm to look upon . In the centre of the table , with his face to the fire , clad in the coarse attire of a farmer's man - the linsey - woolsey coat with a ...
... turned to a deep and blushing scarlet that would have made a frozen man warm to look upon . In the centre of the table , with his face to the fire , clad in the coarse attire of a farmer's man - the linsey - woolsey coat with a ...
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... turned for a moment and gazed upon her fair face with all a father's love - all a father's pride . The face was beautiful ! oh , how beautiful ! -Such a face as visits the poet in his dreams - the artist in his reverie - a face where ...
... turned for a moment and gazed upon her fair face with all a father's love - all a father's pride . The face was beautiful ! oh , how beautiful ! -Such a face as visits the poet in his dreams - the artist in his reverie - a face where ...
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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...