An American Selection, of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth. To which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindSeward and Williams, 1813 - 226 Seiten |
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... savage . This warrior , availing himself of the indefensi- ble attitude of his adversary , with a tremendous war hoop sprung forward , with his lifted hatchet , and compelled him to surrender ; and having disarmed and bound him . fast ...
... savage . This warrior , availing himself of the indefensi- ble attitude of his adversary , with a tremendous war hoop sprung forward , with his lifted hatchet , and compelled him to surrender ; and having disarmed and bound him . fast ...
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... savage chose an odd way of discov ering his humor . He found Putnam bound . He might have dispatched him at a blow . But he loved better to ex- cite the terrors of the prisoner , by hurling a tomahawk at his head - or rather it should ...
... savage chose an odd way of discov ering his humor . He found Putnam bound . He might have dispatched him at a blow . But he loved better to ex- cite the terrors of the prisoner , by hurling a tomahawk at his head - or rather it should ...
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... savage chief again returned to the care of the wounded , and the Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the rest of the party to the place where the whole were , that night , to encamp . They took with them Major Putnam ...
... savage chief again returned to the care of the wounded , and the Indians , about two hundred in number , went before the rest of the party to the place where the whole were , that night , to encamp . They took with them Major Putnam ...
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... savage , unwilling to see another human sa rifice immolated , had run and communicated the tidings 25. That commandant spurned and severely repriman- ded the barbarians , whose nocturnal powwas he suddenly ended . Putnam did not want ...
... savage , unwilling to see another human sa rifice immolated , had run and communicated the tidings 25. That commandant spurned and severely repriman- ded the barbarians , whose nocturnal powwas he suddenly ended . Putnam did not want ...
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... savage brutality he appli ed the scalping knife , and hastened away with this trophy of his horrid cruelty , leaving the officer for dead , and none to relieve and console him , but his faithful dog . 3. The afflicted creature gave ...
... savage brutality he appli ed the scalping knife , and hastened away with this trophy of his horrid cruelty , leaving the officer for dead , and none to relieve and console him , but his faithful dog . 3. The afflicted creature gave ...
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