The Oak-openings, Or, The Bee-hunterD. Appleton, 1881 - 497 sider |
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American ANDRÉ THEURIET answered asked Bear's Meat bee-hunter bees believe Bess Boden Bourdon brother canoe Castle Meal chief chienté Chippewa Christian color companion corporal craft Crowsfeather Detroit enemies eyes favor feel fire Fort Dearborn fugitives garrison Gershom hand hear heard heart hive honey hunter hunting-grounds Indian Injin Jews Kalamazoo kill knew lake land le Bourdon light look Manitou manner Margery means medicine-man medicine-priest mind missionary mouth mysterious necromancy never night once Onoah paddle pale-faces Parson Amen party passed path person Peter pewa Pigeonswing Pottawattamie prairie redskin returned rifle river savages scalp seen shore soon Spirit spot squaw stood stream t'ink tell thing thought tion told tree tribes true truth turned venison warrior Weasel Whiskey Centre whole wigwam wild rice wish woods words Yankees young
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Side 183 - Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Side 183 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, An adder in the path, That biteth the horse heels, So that his rider shall fall backward.
Side 210 - God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such a one as goeth on still in his wickedness.
Side 384 - One nation or the other must be destroyed. I am a red man; my heart tells me that the pale-faces should die. They are on strange hunting-grounds, not the red men.
Side 182 - And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Side 335 - And in her fifteenth year became a bride, Marrying an only son, Francesco Doria, Her playmate from her birth, and her first love.
Side 122 - And ever afar in the silence deep Is heard the splash of the sturgeon's leap, And the bend of his graceful bow is seen, — A glittering arch of silver sheen, Spanning the wave of burnished blue, And dripping with gems of the river-dew.
Side 6 - Providence is pointing the way to all races, and colors, and nations, along the path that is to lead the east and the west alike, to the great goal of human wants. Demons infest that path, and numerous and unhappy are the wanderings of millions who stray from its course; sometimes in reluctance to proceed; sometimes in an indiscreet haste to move faster than their fellows, and always in a forgetfulness of the great rules of conduct that have been handed down from above. Nevertheless, the main course...
Side 268 - Would, like the Patriarch's, soothe a dying hour, With voice as low, as gentle, and caressing, As e'er won maiden's lip in moonlit bower ; With look, like patient Job's, eschewing evil ; With motions graceful as a bird's in air ; Thou art, in sober truth, the veriest devil That e'er clenched fingers in a captive's hair?