Tales of a Traveller, Том 2J. Murray, 1824 - Всего страниц: 394 |
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Abruzzi adventure Alderman Apennines bandit banditti beheld bosom buccaneer Buckthorne burghers buried captain carbine carriage companions Count crack cried daugh daughter devil divining rod doctor door dress Dutch Eccellenza Englishman estafette eyes fair Venetian fancied father felt fire followed Fondi Frosinone gave hand haunted head heard heart Hell-gate horse improvisatore Kidd kind knew labourers landlord length look Manhattoes mountains Naples negro neighbourhood neighbouring never night once passed paused Peechy Prauw Pelasgian Peter Stuyvesant pirates pistol poniard poor Popkins prince Princess Prossedi quizzing glass racter Ramm ransom recollect Red-cap replied returned rich road robbers rocks round scene seated seemed seen seized silence skiff sleep spade stiletto story tain talk Terracina theatre thing thought tion Tom Walker took town travellers treasure trees turned Tusculum Venetian lady village voice wife Wolfert Webber young lady
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Стр. 273 - ... and seemed to think every sin entered up to their account became a credit on his own side of the page. He even talked of the expediency of reviving the persecution of Quakers and Anabaptists. In a word, Tom's zeal became as notorious as his riches. Still, in spite of all this strenuous attention to forms, Tom had a lurking dread that the devil, after all, would have his due. That he might not be taken unawares, therefore, it is said he always carried a small Bible in his coat-pocket.
Стр. 255 - It was full of pits and quagmires, partly covered with weeds and mosses, where the green surface often betrayed the traveller into a gulf of black, smothering mud: there were also dark and stagnant pools, the abodes of the tadpole, the bull-frog, and the watersnake; where the trunks of pines and hemlocks lay half-drowned, half-rotting, looking like alligators sleeping in the mire.
Стр. 271 - ... was dreaming of making sudden fortunes from nothing. As usual the fever had subsided; the dream had gone off, and the imaginary fortunes with it; the patients were left in doleful plight, and the whole country resounded with the consequent cry of "hard times.
Стр. 273 - ... friend, and set his wits to work to cheat him out of the conditions. He became, therefore, all of a sudden, a violent church-goer. He prayed loudly and strenuously as if heaven were to be taken by force of lungs. Indeed, one might always tell when he had sinned most during the week, by the clamor of his Sunday devotion. The quiet Christians who had been modestly and steadfastly travelling Zionward, were struck with self-reproach at seeing themselves so suddenly outstripped in their career by...
Стр. 260 - I am he to whom the red men consecrated this spot, and in honor of whom they now and then roasted a white man, by way of sweet-smelling sacrifice. Since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at...
Стр. 253 - ... Tom Walker. He had a wife as miserly as himself; they were so miserly that they even conspired to cheat each other. Whatever the woman could lay hands on she hid away; a hen could not cackle but she was on the alert to secure the new-laid egg. Her husband was continually prying about to detect her secret hoards, and many and fierce were the conflicts that took place about what ought to have been common property. They lived in a forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an air of starvation.
Стр. 259 - Tom looked in the direction that the stranger pointed, and beheld one of the great trees, fair and flourishing without, but rotten at the core, and saw that it had been nearly hewn through, so that the first high wind was likely to blow it down. On the bark of...
Стр. 268 - ... he knows how to play his cards when pretty sure of his game. At length, it is said, when delay had whetted Tom's eagerness to the quick, and prepared him to agree to anything rather than not gain the promised treasure, he met the black man one evening in his usual woodman's dress, with his axe on his shoulder, sauntering along the swamp, and humming a tune.
Стр. 256 - It had been one of the strongholds of the Indians during their wars with the first colonists. Here they had thrown up a kind of fort, which they had looked upon as almost impregnable and had used as a place of refuge for their squaws and children. Nothing remained of the old Indian fort but a few...
Стр. 234 - ... like a bull bellowing for more drink; but when the tide is full, it relapses into quiet and, for a time, sleeps as soundly as an alderman after dinner. In fact, it may be compared to a quarrelsome toper, who is a peaceable fellow en.ough when he has no liquor at all or when he has a skinfull, but who when half seas over plays the very devil.