Echoes from the Backwoods: Or, Sketches of Transatlantic Life, Volumen2H. Colburn, 1846 |
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... left their quarters to see the sport . In the mean time , a large body of warriors , who were concealed in the woods hard by , came silently behind the fort , entered it without opposition , and B 5 THE BACKWOODS . 9.
... left their quarters to see the sport . In the mean time , a large body of warriors , who were concealed in the woods hard by , came silently behind the fort , entered it without opposition , and B 5 THE BACKWOODS . 9.
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... means of dogs ; when discovered , they imme- diately sham dead . ' Possuming is become an idiom ; a term a term signifying any one who is humbugging or deceiving . Their habits have often been described , but I do not know that I have ...
... means of dogs ; when discovered , they imme- diately sham dead . ' Possuming is become an idiom ; a term a term signifying any one who is humbugging or deceiving . Their habits have often been described , but I do not know that I have ...
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... means of the negro and our own exer- tions , we reached the landing - place — a distance of sixty miles . The Atchafalaya resembled the Red River , and is , in fact , an overflow from it . Alligators , and alligator gars - a disgusting ...
... means of the negro and our own exer- tions , we reached the landing - place — a distance of sixty miles . The Atchafalaya resembled the Red River , and is , in fact , an overflow from it . Alligators , and alligator gars - a disgusting ...
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... means of a cigar , which for the time drove them off . It was through this amphibious country that our troops passed in boats to attack New Orleans . A sea breeze next morning drove off the mosquitoes ; for many hours the paddles of the ...
... means of a cigar , which for the time drove them off . It was through this amphibious country that our troops passed in boats to attack New Orleans . A sea breeze next morning drove off the mosquitoes ; for many hours the paddles of the ...
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... means above five hundred free and en- lightened citizens of the United States were enabled to snore and grunt ensemble in the arms of Morpheus , and their boots , ranged in like manner , were cleaned and replaced with- out confusion ...
... means above five hundred free and en- lightened citizens of the United States were enabled to snore and grunt ensemble in the arms of Morpheus , and their boots , ranged in like manner , were cleaned and replaced with- out confusion ...
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Página 127 - To the broad column which rolls on, and shows More like the fountain of an infant sea Torn from the womb of mountains by the throes Of a new world, than only thus to be Parent of rivers, which flow gushingly, With many windings, through the vale :— Look back! Lo ! where it comes like an eternity, As if to sweep down all things in its track, Charming the eye with dread, — a matchless cataract...
Página 87 - We know what risks all landsmen run, From noblemen to tailors ; Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors !
Página 249 - His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings, on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear as it disappears in the deep, making the surge foam around.
Página 249 - Tringse coursing along the sands ; trains of Ducks streaming over the surface ; silent and watchful Cranes, intent and wading ; clamorous Crows ; and all the winged multitudes that subsist by the bounty of this vast liquid magazine of Nature. High over all these hovers one whose action instantly arrests all his attention.
Página 127 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Página 249 - Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Página 247 - ... but man ; and, from the ethereal heights to which he soars, looking abroad, at one glance, on an immeasurable expanse of forests, fields, lakes, and ocean, deep below him, he appears indifferent to the...
Página 248 - ... change of seasons ; as in a few minutes he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold, and from thence descend at will to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.
Página 45 - ... many of them from two to three feet in diameter, and a hundred and fifty feet high ! Yet whoever passes along the high road from Georgetown to Charleston, in South Carolina, about twenty miles from the former place, can have striking and melancholy proofs of this fact.
Página 248 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighboring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below — the snow-white gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy...