The Anglo-American Magazine, Volume 5Maclear., 1854 - Food |
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... season of easy and rapid transport- ation to escape him , it is evident that he means to outrage . The horses and cattle were killed , strengthen himself on the peninsula , and make and even the provisions and garden stuff , Fort Erie ...
... season of easy and rapid transport- ation to escape him , it is evident that he means to outrage . The horses and cattle were killed , strengthen himself on the peninsula , and make and even the provisions and garden stuff , Fort Erie ...
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... season of hay - making gene- draws nigh , we daily find some new proof of his rally commences towards the end of the month , goodness . " The provision of food , the maturing and many a sweet - smelling swathe , or haycock , of plants ...
... season of hay - making gene- draws nigh , we daily find some new proof of his rally commences towards the end of the month , goodness . " The provision of food , the maturing and many a sweet - smelling swathe , or haycock , of plants ...
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... season , which seemed a dismal age , I sat and consequently I never invited my cousin to in solitary misery . visit us , nor ever hinted to our uncle that I was daily in the habit of seeing him . Like a blast from the archangel's grave ...
... season , which seemed a dismal age , I sat and consequently I never invited my cousin to in solitary misery . visit us , nor ever hinted to our uncle that I was daily in the habit of seeing him . Like a blast from the archangel's grave ...
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... season . unfortunately evidenced a disposition diametrically the reverse . One thing was very obvious , that it was not affection which had impelled the dying man to Prepared , as I was in no small degree for this seek , at the eleventh ...
... season . unfortunately evidenced a disposition diametrically the reverse . One thing was very obvious , that it was not affection which had impelled the dying man to Prepared , as I was in no small degree for this seek , at the eleventh ...
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... season said to be very fatal to the females of the house of Beauregard . She shuddered as the terrors of that tradition recurred to her memory , and wished she were not alone in the haunted forest on so unlucky a day . Many and strange ...
... season said to be very fatal to the females of the house of Beauregard . She shuddered as the terrors of that tradition recurred to her memory , and wished she were not alone in the haunted forest on so unlucky a day . Many and strange ...
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Page 303 - David's wives and concubines were given unto him, of me, by the hand of Nathan, my servant, and others of the prophets who had the keys of this power; and in none of these things did he sin against me, save in the case of Uriah and his wife...
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Page 108 - Phoebe, where we were again exposed to a dreadful raking fire. My ship was now totally unmanageable ; yet, as her head was toward the enemy, and he to leeward of me, I still hoped to be able to board him.
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Page 212 - ... when most unfortunately some ammunition, which had been placed under the platform, caught fire from the firing of the guns to the rear, and a most tremendous explosion followed, by which almost all the troops which had entered the place were dreadfully mangled. Panic was instantly communicated to the troops (who could not be persuaded that the explosion was accidental), and the enemy, at the same time pressing forward, and commencing a heavy fire of musketry, the...
Page 535 - I ordered the field pieces to retire across the bridge, and form a battery for its protection, and to cover the retreat of the infantry, which, was accordingly done, and the parties of Appling and Wool, as well as that of Sproul, retired alternately, keeping up a brisk fire, until they got under cover of the works. The enemy's light troops occupied 243 the houses near the bridge, and.
Page 211 - General's department, who, actually with a few men, had turned the enemy's battery. '• The column of support, consisting of the remainder of De Watteville's and the King's regiment, forming the reserve, in marching too near the Lake, found themselves entangled between the rocks and the water, and by the retreat of the flank companies, were thrown into such confusion, as to render it impossible to give them any kind of formation during the darkness of the night, at which time they were exposed to...
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