The Heathcotes; or, The wept of Wish-Ton-WishRoutledge, 1855 - 273 Seiten |
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... passed the morning of his life in maturing his great plan for the destruction of the strange race , and his later years were spent in abortive attempts to put this bold design in execution . His restless activity in plotting the ...
... passed the morning of his life in maturing his great plan for the destruction of the strange race , and his later years were spent in abortive attempts to put this bold design in execution . His restless activity in plotting the ...
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... passed in trimming my lamps , lest , like the foolish virgins , I should be caught unprepared ; and now , when my loins are girded and my race is nearly run , shall I become a backslider and falsifier of the word ! Much have I endured ...
... passed in trimming my lamps , lest , like the foolish virgins , I should be caught unprepared ; and now , when my loins are girded and my race is nearly run , shall I become a backslider and falsifier of the word ! Much have I endured ...
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... passed away in quiet , amid a species of negative prosperity . Rumours from the old world reached the ears of the tenants of this secluded settlement months after the events to which they referred were elsewhere forgotten , and tumults ...
... passed away in quiet , amid a species of negative prosperity . Rumours from the old world reached the ears of the tenants of this secluded settlement months after the events to which they referred were elsewhere forgotten , and tumults ...
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... passed in thus indirectly teaching an art that was so much at vari- ance with the mandates of his divine - Master . The chastened sol- dier , however , never forgot to close his instruction with a petition extraordinary , in the ...
... passed in thus indirectly teaching an art that was so much at vari- ance with the mandates of his divine - Master . The chastened sol- dier , however , never forgot to close his instruction with a petition extraordinary , in the ...
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... passed a day in depriving the luxuriant maize of its tops , in order to secure the nutritious blades for fodder , and to admit the sun and air to harden a grain , that is al- most considered the staple production of the region he ...
... passed a day in depriving the luxuriant maize of its tops , in order to secure the nutritious blades for fodder , and to admit the sun and air to harden a grain , that is al- most considered the staple production of the region he ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
alarm appeared arms Azazel betrayed blood bosom calm Captain captive character chief child colony colour companion Conanchet conch Content countenance danger dark deep distance dost duty dwelling ears earth Eben Dudley enemy Ensign Ergot evidence Faith father favour fcap fear feeling fierce forest gaze girl glance grave habits hand hath heard heart heathen hour husband Indian instant John Gilbert known less light listened look maidens manner Mark Heathcote matter Meek Metacom Miantonimoh mind Mohegans mother musket Narra-mattah Narragansett nature never night pale-faces palisadoes passed path Pequots postern Puritan quiet reason returned Reuben Ring Ruth Sachem savage scene seemed seen settlement sound speak spirit spoke stood stranger thee thine thou hast thou knowest thought tion tomahawk trees tribe Uncas valley village voice warrior watch Whittal Ring wife wigwam Wish-Ton-Wish woman Wompanoag woods Yengeese young younker youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 123 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Seite 216 - The Lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the madman: the lover, all as frantic. Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing...
Seite 70 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Seite 181 - AND the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord : and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Seite 185 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house : when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Seite 155 - Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book ; he hath not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk ink : his intellect is not replenished ; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts...
Seite 206 - No wailing ghost shall dare appear To vex with shrieks this quiet grove; But shepherd lads assemble here, And melting virgins own their love. No wither'd witch shall here be seen, No goblins lead their nightly crew : The female fays shall haunt the green, And dress thy grave with pearly dew.
Seite 185 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Seite 185 - But mine eyes are unto thee, O GOD the LORD : in thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
Seite 185 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.