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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... scene . There were the warm flashes of light falling round the apartment , red- dening the rafters and glowing along the smoky walls ; there was the massive oaken table , with the light falling full and strongly on the muscular up the ...
... scene . There were the warm flashes of light falling round the apartment , red- dening the rafters and glowing along the smoky walls ; there was the massive oaken table , with the light falling full and strongly on the muscular up the ...
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... scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the mass board glittering with the signs of festival hospitality ; the high - back the circular mirror over the mantel , and the perpendicular glasses nd chisseled 100 ...
... scene . The parlor was carpeted with elegance ; the furniture , the mass board glittering with the signs of festival hospitality ; the high - back the circular mirror over the mantel , and the perpendicular glasses nd chisseled 100 ...
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... scene somewhat like this , " resumed her uncle , traversing the bal cony , " on a scene somewhat like this - a quiet valley , embosomed among the highlands of Scotland - on a calm , summer night , in the year of our Lord 1745 , the moon ...
... scene somewhat like this , " resumed her uncle , traversing the bal cony , " on a scene somewhat like this - a quiet valley , embosomed among the highlands of Scotland - on a calm , summer night , in the year of our Lord 1745 , the moon ...
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... scene , and my pretty darter there , he'd say I kno comfort was , and so I do . " The picture was very quiet and peaceful in character . Side by the scene that ensued but three hours afterward , it would have see a heaven in view of ...
... scene , and my pretty darter there , he'd say I kno comfort was , and so I do . " The picture was very quiet and peaceful in character . Side by the scene that ensued but three hours afterward , it would have see a heaven in view of ...
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... scene . Gotlieb Hoff , seated at one end of the table , had but one look and one object , and that was the face and figure of Gilbert Gates , who , with arms meekly folded on his breast , was smiling to himself as if something very good ...
... scene . Gotlieb Hoff , seated at one end of the table , had but one look and one object , and that was the face and figure of Gilbert Gates , who , with arms meekly folded on his breast , was smiling to himself as if something very good ...
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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...