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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... wood - cabin - all in good taste . " " This Sergeant Hamsdorff is the man commonly called Hessian Dick- aye , Clarence ? I had rather he were not here . He is a wild , reckless fellow , and may do much to mar my plot ; however , let it ...
... wood - cabin - all in good taste . " " This Sergeant Hamsdorff is the man commonly called Hessian Dick- aye , Clarence ? I had rather he were not here . He is a wild , reckless fellow , and may do much to mar my plot ; however , let it ...
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... woods around us , out we trooped on that fair day in June , while the sun shone on the scarlet dresses of the reg'lars and glistened on the green and blue coats o ' the Provincials , and every heart felt brave , and every step was firm ...
... woods around us , out we trooped on that fair day in June , while the sun shone on the scarlet dresses of the reg'lars and glistened on the green and blue coats o ' the Provincials , and every heart felt brave , and every step was firm ...
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... woods -trees here and trees there , and trees everywhere - with a little glimpse of the blue sky now and then through the intervals between the trunks . We were marchin ' within ten miles of Fort Du Quesne , when all the officers ...
... woods -trees here and trees there , and trees everywhere - with a little glimpse of the blue sky now and then through the intervals between the trunks . We were marchin ' within ten miles of Fort Du Quesne , when all the officers ...
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... woods somewhere - on some errand to the white settlements . He expected his return an hour after sundown . So we ... woods , " exclaimed Mary Mayland with tears in her eyes . " Spy or not , t'was a hard death - alone in the woods- ' twas ...
... woods somewhere - on some errand to the white settlements . He expected his return an hour after sundown . So we ... woods , " exclaimed Mary Mayland with tears in her eyes . " Spy or not , t'was a hard death - alone in the woods- ' twas ...
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... woods , some three miles west of the Ford . Is it your purpose to make one gallant effort to crush the enterprize in he bud ? " " You judge me aright ! " said the young soldier laying his hand upon his sword . " With my gallant troopers ...
... woods , some three miles west of the Ford . Is it your purpose to make one gallant effort to crush the enterprize in he bud ? " " You judge me aright ! " said the young soldier laying his hand upon his sword . " With my gallant troopers ...
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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...