The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies, Том 1Hurst and Blackett, 1854 |
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... covering our traveller in a mantle of uncertainty . The possibility of his escape that night first became improba- ble , and then impossible . He hallooed at the highest pitch of his voice , but the wolf was the only live varmint that ...
... covering our traveller in a mantle of uncertainty . The possibility of his escape that night first became improba- ble , and then impossible . He hallooed at the highest pitch of his voice , but the wolf was the only live varmint that ...
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... covered with trees , short , and of monstrous bulk , so that they nearly shut out the light of the moon in various places . The spot where we purposed to erect our scaffolding was in the dreariest place we could select , and , as it ...
... covered with trees , short , and of monstrous bulk , so that they nearly shut out the light of the moon in various places . The spot where we purposed to erect our scaffolding was in the dreariest place we could select , and , as it ...
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... covering it all with crimson and gold , and filling the air with a flood of burning glory ; and then the two mortal an- tagonists , armed with long ponderous rifles , took their station back to back , and at a pre- concerted signal ...
... covering it all with crimson and gold , and filling the air with a flood of burning glory ; and then the two mortal an- tagonists , armed with long ponderous rifles , took their station back to back , and at a pre- concerted signal ...
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... covered an area , to the best of my judgment , of at least five hundred acres . On our approach , a certain portion of the little fellows ran to the mouth of their holes , and squatting down commenced a shrill barking , not unlike that ...
... covered an area , to the best of my judgment , of at least five hundred acres . On our approach , a certain portion of the little fellows ran to the mouth of their holes , and squatting down commenced a shrill barking , not unlike that ...
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... covered as they were with bloody foam . I had heard from old hunters of this terrible animal - that everything fled before him- that bullets had no perceptible effect on his hide , and that his attack was certain death ; but if I ...
... covered as they were with bloody foam . I had heard from old hunters of this terrible animal - that everything fled before him- that bullets had no perceptible effect on his hide , and that his attack was certain death ; but if I ...
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