Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young Men of Germany and the Old Boys of AmericaJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1871 - 352 sider |
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... things , it was said that his wife , when she made his clothes , spread the cloth upon the floor , laid him down on it , and cut them out by the shape of his body . In consequence of this , his trousers were so very ΤΟ MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
... things , it was said that his wife , when she made his clothes , spread the cloth upon the floor , laid him down on it , and cut them out by the shape of his body . In consequence of this , his trousers were so very ΤΟ MUSKINGUM LEGENDS .
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... thing about which observing farmers puzzled and cudgeled their brains most was to " contrive " how the stumps were all extracted so quickly and so completely . They could not have rotted away so soon . More than one simple soul believed ...
... thing about which observing farmers puzzled and cudgeled their brains most was to " contrive " how the stumps were all extracted so quickly and so completely . They could not have rotted away so soon . More than one simple soul believed ...
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... things did he regard , but walked right on . At last he approached the little creek - meadow , in which the hearty old bachelor , Halford Pinbury , was raking hay into windrows on the hillside . Now , Halford Pinbury , bachelor though ...
... things did he regard , but walked right on . At last he approached the little creek - meadow , in which the hearty old bachelor , Halford Pinbury , was raking hay into windrows on the hillside . Now , Halford Pinbury , bachelor though ...
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... things . He only strode right on across the stubbly wheatfield , swing- ing his hairy - black arms . Under a mighty mulberry there sat a squad of Farmer Pinbury's jolly harvesters at their forenoon luncheon ; but when their eyes fell ...
... things . He only strode right on across the stubbly wheatfield , swing- ing his hairy - black arms . Under a mighty mulberry there sat a squad of Farmer Pinbury's jolly harvesters at their forenoon luncheon ; but when their eyes fell ...
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... thing was wrought ! As soon as they looked at the Crooked . Tree , their eyesight became distorted , so that no two of them any longer clave together , but they rode each his several way . Thus was the great sovereign and inviolable ...
... thing was wrought ! As soon as they looked at the Crooked . Tree , their eyesight became distorted , so that no two of them any longer clave together , but they rode each his several way . Thus was the great sovereign and inviolable ...
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Muskingum Legends: With Other Sketches and Papers Descriptive of the Young ... Stephen Powers Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1871 |
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Side 162 - Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.
Side 311 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Side 304 - They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy.
Side 317 - That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Side 299 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Side 9 - And all and each that passed that way Did join in the pursuit. And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The toll-men thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race. And so he did, and won it too, For he got first to town ; Nor stopped till where he had got up He did again get down. Now let us sing, long live the king...
Side 24 - Hunts in their meadows, and his fresh-dug den Yawns by my path. The gopher mines the ground Where stood their swarming cities. All is gone — All — save the piles of earth that hold their bones — The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods — The barriers which they builded from the soil To keep the foe at bay...
Side 78 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Side 300 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
Side 80 - Arma virumque cano, Troiae qui primus ab oris Italiam fato profugus Laviniaque venit litora, multum ille et terris iactatus et alto vi superum, saevae memorem lunonis ob iram, multa quoque et bello passus, dum conderet urbem inferretque deos Latio; genus unde Latinum Albanique patres atque altae moenia Romae.