The King of the HuronsPutnam, 1850 - 319 Seiten |
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... canoe , with half a century's lease of life stretching in bright perspective before him and now , he was a captive in his enemy's camp , listening to the sound of whetted weapons , preparing for his own immolation , and recalling to ...
... canoe , with half a century's lease of life stretching in bright perspective before him and now , he was a captive in his enemy's camp , listening to the sound of whetted weapons , preparing for his own immolation , and recalling to ...
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... canoes , and who , passing the few settlements and exposed places always under cover of the night , had reached the vicinity of New York without molestation . There had been , indeed , no recent active hostilities between the French and ...
... canoes , and who , passing the few settlements and exposed places always under cover of the night , had reached the vicinity of New York without molestation . There had been , indeed , no recent active hostilities between the French and ...
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... canoe could be faintly seen on the water ; " it is a boat , rowed by two Iroquois " -and the Indian , giving more of a shoreward direc- tion to his skiff , resumed his progress , with a slightly increased velocity , yet avoiding the ...
... canoe could be faintly seen on the water ; " it is a boat , rowed by two Iroquois " -and the Indian , giving more of a shoreward direc- tion to his skiff , resumed his progress , with a slightly increased velocity , yet avoiding the ...
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... canoe was still in their wake , with a celerity equal to their own , and a silence that gave an air of singular mystery to its move- ments . Henrich began to suspect that he was followed from the city by some one authorized to require ...
... canoe was still in their wake , with a celerity equal to their own , and a silence that gave an air of singular mystery to its move- ments . Henrich began to suspect that he was followed from the city by some one authorized to require ...
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... canoes , he said , were swifter than the skiff , and had already six hours the start ; but the count made many pauses , and lost much time in frequently crossing the river at the least alarm . " But the sun is moving , while we stand ...
... canoes , he said , were swifter than the skiff , and had already six hours the start ; but the count made many pauses , and lost much time in frequently crossing the river at the least alarm . " But the sun is moving , while we stand ...
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Seite 28 - Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng: Memories of the Middle Ages, when the emperors, rough and bold, Had their dwelling in thy castle, time-defying, centuries old; And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted, in their uncouth rhyme, That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every clime.
Seite 94 - Justice is lame, as well as blind, amongst us ; The laws (corrupted to their ends that make them) Serve but for instruments of some new tyranny, That every day starts up, to enslave us deeper.