Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 352 páginas |
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... hour of midnight , seen Daddy Childs driving a yoke of fiery - eyed oxen over the hill , drawing a bob - sled , on which his wife was riding . But nobody could find out anything posi- tively evil concerning him , so he was permitted to ...
... hour of midnight , seen Daddy Childs driving a yoke of fiery - eyed oxen over the hill , drawing a bob - sled , on which his wife was riding . But nobody could find out anything posi- tively evil concerning him , so he was permitted to ...
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... hour the arsenals of the Most High God were opened . With horrid and heart - sickening yells they leaped the phantom stockade , and the lurid lightnings guided their swift tomahawks not amiss . The Mound - builders yielded up their ...
... hour the arsenals of the Most High God were opened . With horrid and heart - sickening yells they leaped the phantom stockade , and the lurid lightnings guided their swift tomahawks not amiss . The Mound - builders yielded up their ...
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... hour drew near that they should elect their chief sachem , Tammany caused a long and a strong blast to be blown on the hollow thigh - bone of a moose , which was heard far and wide throughout the en- campment . All the braves thereupon ...
... hour drew near that they should elect their chief sachem , Tammany caused a long and a strong blast to be blown on the hollow thigh - bone of a moose , which was heard far and wide throughout the en- campment . All the braves thereupon ...
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... hour of his birth is not recorded , but that auspi- cious event is supposed to have occurred in the night - time , since the infant is reported to have looked hard at the whale - oil lamp , and blinked with both eyes , -which cir ...
... hour of his birth is not recorded , but that auspi- cious event is supposed to have occurred in the night - time , since the infant is reported to have looked hard at the whale - oil lamp , and blinked with both eyes , -which cir ...
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... hour after hour and gaze down upon the sea , which looked just as the soapsuds used to in his mother's washtub ; and then he would keck , and retch , and strain until he thought he would turn wrong side out . When the ship would go up ...
... hour after hour and gaze down upon the sea , which looked just as the soapsuds used to in his mother's washtub ; and then he would keck , and retch , and strain until he thought he would turn wrong side out . When the ship would go up ...
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Página 353 - And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Página 311 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Página 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Página 223 - Horatio, what a wounded name, Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me. If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart, Absent thee from felicity awhile, And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain, To tell my story.
Página 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Página 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Página 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Página 300 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Página 292 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,