John Gray: A Kentucky Tale of the Olden TimeLippincott, 1892 - 218 strani |
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Stran 655
... followed the winding road at a slow, meditative gait, giving himself up wholly to the influence of the hour. The low-glinting sunbeams, the gathering hush, the holy expectancy of stars, a flock of white clouds lying at rest along the ...
... followed the winding road at a slow, meditative gait, giving himself up wholly to the influence of the hour. The low-glinting sunbeams, the gathering hush, the holy expectancy of stars, a flock of white clouds lying at rest along the ...
Stran 664
... followed the flight of smoke upward, and a smile suffused his face, — the smile of a man pleased with what he is and with something he is about to do. Once his smile grew broader, and his diaphragm shook silently with an earthquake of ...
... followed the flight of smoke upward, and a smile suffused his face, — the smile of a man pleased with what he is and with something he is about to do. Once his smile grew broader, and his diaphragm shook silently with an earthquake of ...
Stran 670
... followed the boy under cover of darkness some yards behind. The Poythress homestead had a front veranda in the old Maryland style, and there was shrubbery in the yard. As the boy stepped upon the veranda, where the voices of Joseph and ...
... followed the boy under cover of darkness some yards behind. The Poythress homestead had a front veranda in the old Maryland style, and there was shrubbery in the yard. As the boy stepped upon the veranda, where the voices of Joseph and ...
Stran 693
... followed their husbands into the wilderness, and there in time laid an impress so strong and fine upon the local civilization that its traditions are lustrous still. To him she had always been a sympathetic companion and the sole sharer ...
... followed their husbands into the wilderness, and there in time laid an impress so strong and fine upon the local civilization that its traditions are lustrous still. To him she had always been a sympathetic companion and the sole sharer ...
Stran 701
... my face to the wall. From the conversation that followed I am led truly to believe that he knew the name of every member of the Democratic Society of Lexington, my own included, and that he understood Kentucky affairs with JOHN GRAY. 701.
... my face to the wall. From the conversation that followed I am led truly to believe that he knew the name of every member of the Democratic Society of Lexington, my own included, and that he understood Kentucky affairs with JOHN GRAY. 701.
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Stran 5 - And Jobab died ; and Husham of the land of the Temanites reigned in his stead. 35. And Husham died ; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead ; and the name of his city was Avith.
Stran 49 - Words, Facts, and Phrases : A Dictionary of Curious, Quaint, and Out-of-the-Way Matters. By ELIEZER EDWARDS.
Stran 767 - The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers...
Stran 32 - THIS inimitable series of volumes is absolutely unique, there being nothing approaching to them in all the wide range of modern or ancient literature. Written by Mr. Surtees, a well-known country gentleman, who was passionately devoted to the healthy sport of fox-hunting, and gifted with a keen spirit of manly humour of a Rabelaisian tinge, they abound with incidents redolent of mirth and jollity.
Stran 49 - Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. Giving the Derivation, Source, or Origin of Common Phrases, Allusions, and Words that have a Tale to Tell.
Stran 11 - The illustrations are perfectly correct anatomical studies, and do not reproduce the inaccuracies which experience has taught us to look for in works of a similar kind. Some of the plates, especially those of the anatomy of the chest, are of great excellence.
Stran 782 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Stran 769 - Of what use will this be for agricultural purposes? I would not, for that purpose, give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory.
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Stran 763 - no other means of putting an end to the ambition of the Americans than that of shutting them up within the limits which Nature seems to have traced for them ; but Spain is not in a condition to do this great work alone. She cannot, therefore, hasten too quickly to engage the aid of a preponderating Power, yielding to it a small part of her immense domains in order to preserve the rest.