Blanche of Brandywine: Or, September the Eleventh, 1777. A Romance, Combining the Poetry, Legend, and History of the Battle of Brandywine |
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... blood , streamed from his breast and shoulders . Bernard , weeping like a child , wrap the azure robe around his form , extinguished the lights , and bore him from fatal room . He locked the door , and laid his master on his couch ...
... blood , streamed from his breast and shoulders . Bernard , weeping like a child , wrap the azure robe around his form , extinguished the lights , and bore him from fatal room . He locked the door , and laid his master on his couch ...
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... blood dyed and crimsoned his native hearth . Two brothers were strewn along the quiet garden walks --- their limbs hewn and hacked , and their faces carved with the Pretender - they had fought with him in his dow-which has ...
... blood dyed and crimsoned his native hearth . Two brothers were strewn along the quiet garden walks --- their limbs hewn and hacked , and their faces carved with the Pretender - they had fought with him in his dow-which has ...
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... blood . How the dead - their corpses all mingled , and their faces all hacked and carved - strewed the ground and littered the green grass , while a hundred little rivulets of blood poured along the sod and drippled into the waters o ...
... blood . How the dead - their corpses all mingled , and their faces all hacked and carved - strewed the ground and littered the green grass , while a hundred little rivulets of blood poured along the sod and drippled into the waters o ...
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... blood and iced her veins . " A sudden gleam lights the cloud ! " the maiden shrieked forth in a tone wild and terrible as the voice of one throttled by the vision of a nightmare . " Look , look ! Bands of armed men - a strange host ...
... blood and iced her veins . " A sudden gleam lights the cloud ! " the maiden shrieked forth in a tone wild and terrible as the voice of one throttled by the vision of a nightmare . " Look , look ! Bands of armed men - a strange host ...
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... blood - red light , coloring rock and tree and stream with its fiery glare . And figures were hurrying to and fro in that light , and the green sward was crowded by bands of men , their long shadows flung far over the mea- dow , and ...
... blood - red light , coloring rock and tree and stream with its fiery glare . And figures were hurrying to and fro in that light , and the green sward was crowded by bands of men , their long shadows flung far over the mea- dow , and ...
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Page 286 - These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 287 - But, before the line of irrecoverable separation be drawn between us, let us reason the matter together: Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet not one in a thousand of you has heart enough to join him. Howe is as much deceived by you as the American cause is injured by you.
Page 66 - You see," said Mr. Pecksniff, passing the candle rapidly from roll to roll of paper, "some traces of our doings here. Salisbury Cathedral from the north. From the south. From the east. From the west. From the south-east. From the nor'-west. A bridge. An alms-house. A jail. A church. A powder-magazine. A wine-cellar. A portico. A summer-house. An ice-house. Plans, elevations, sections, every kind of thing. And this...