The Americans at Home; Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and PrairiesBooks on Demand, 1854 - Всего страниц: 322 |
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... reaching Missouri , and its hundreds of branches - and then in the east , from the Illinois , the Ohio , and its numerous tributa- ries - such as the Tennessee , the Cumberland , or the meanest of which , such as the Sandy River , on ...
... reaching Missouri , and its hundreds of branches - and then in the east , from the Illinois , the Ohio , and its numerous tributa- ries - such as the Tennessee , the Cumberland , or the meanest of which , such as the Sandy River , on ...
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... reached over to the table to get the paper , but his fancied weakness prevented him . " I'm nearly gone ! Oh , them naughty boys ! I knew I'd die before they got back ; they'll see it now ! " " Well , Uncle Billy , " said the ' Squire ...
... reached over to the table to get the paper , but his fancied weakness prevented him . " I'm nearly gone ! Oh , them naughty boys ! I knew I'd die before they got back ; they'll see it now ! " " Well , Uncle Billy , " said the ' Squire ...
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... reaching it we dismounted , but had the greatest diffi- culty to prevent them from leaping into the water . The streaks of red to our right became brighter and brighter , and gleamed through the huge dark trunks of the cypress trees ...
... reaching it we dismounted , but had the greatest diffi- culty to prevent them from leaping into the water . The streaks of red to our right became brighter and brighter , and gleamed through the huge dark trunks of the cypress trees ...
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... reached up to the shores of the creek . On the other side a couple of dozen wild Aca- dians firing right and left , without paying the least attention where or whom their bullets struck . Carleton and myself , up to our waists in water ...
... reached up to the shores of the creek . On the other side a couple of dozen wild Aca- dians firing right and left , without paying the least attention where or whom their bullets struck . Carleton and myself , up to our waists in water ...
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... reaching Tequila . Scarcely had this thought passed through my mind , when a little bush beside the road seemed to rise up . I turned suddenly , and , in a breath , the two barrels of a musket were before me , so near and surely aimed ...
... reaching Tequila . Scarcely had this thought passed through my mind , when a little bush beside the road seemed to rise up . I turned suddenly , and , in a breath , the two barrels of a musket were before me , so near and surely aimed ...
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The Americans at Home: Or, Byeways, Backwoods, and Prairies, Volume 2 Thomas Chandler Haliburton Недоступно для просмотра - 2016 |
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Стр. 135 - The Warners ceased their supper to listen and look ; and they saw emerging from the woods, and rattling down the hill at a brisk trot, the cart of one of those itinerant tin merchants, who originate in New England, and travel from one end of the Union to the other, avoiding the cities, and seeking customers among the country people ; who, besides buying their ware, always invite them to a meal and a bed. The tin-man came blowing his horn to the steps of the porch, and there stopping his cart, addressed...
Стр. 270 - ... em. I felt strong as a boss, too, and the dug-out hadn't more'n leaped six lengths from the bank afore — zip — chug — co-souse I went — the front eend jest lifted itself agin a sawyer and emptied me into the element ! In about a second I came up bang agin a snag, and I guess I grabbed it sudden, while old Missouri curl'd and purl'd around me as ef she was in a hurry to git to the mouth, so she might muddy the Massissippi. I warn't much skeer'd, but still I didn't jest like to hang on...