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... Captain Bean , the commander of the company ; a man about forty years of age , vigorous and active . His life had been chiefly passed on the frontier , occasionally in Indian warfare , so that he was a thorough woodsman , and a first ...
... Captain Bean , the commander of the company ; a man about forty years of age , vigorous and active . His life had been chiefly passed on the frontier , occasionally in Indian warfare , so that he was a thorough woodsman , and a first ...
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... Captain , when he had gone ; there's not a better hunter in the camp ; he's sure to bring in ame . " In a little ... Captain's lodge ; Beatte brought in a couple of wild turkeys ; the spits were laden , and the camp - kettle crammed with ...
... Captain , when he had gone ; there's not a better hunter in the camp ; he's sure to bring in ame . " In a little ... Captain's lodge ; Beatte brought in a couple of wild turkeys ; the spits were laden , and the camp - kettle crammed with ...
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... Captain , the Doctor , and other sages and leaders of the camp , were seated or stretched out on the grass , round a frontier map , holding a consultation about our position , and the course we were to pursue . Our plan was to cross the ...
... Captain , the Doctor , and other sages and leaders of the camp , were seated or stretched out on the grass , round a frontier map , holding a consultation about our position , and the course we were to pursue . Our plan was to cross the ...
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... Captain . " Well ! those stones were set up by the Osages as a land- mark : from that spot you may have a sight of the Red Fork . " " In that case , " cried the Captain , " we shall reach the Red Fork to - morrow ; then cross the ...
... Captain . " Well ! those stones were set up by the Osages as a land- mark : from that spot you may have a sight of the Red Fork . " " In that case , " cried the Captain , " we shall reach the Red Fork to - morrow ; then cross the ...
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... Captain's fire . It was composed of huge trunks of trees , and of sufficient magnitude to roast a buffalo whole . Here were a number of the prime hunters and leaders of the camp , some sitting , some stand- ing , and others lying on ...
... Captain's fire . It was composed of huge trunks of trees , and of sufficient magnitude to roast a buffalo whole . Here were a number of the prime hunters and leaders of the camp , some sitting , some stand- ing , and others lying on ...
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Página 327 - That in the antique oratory shook His bosom in its solitude; and then — As in that hour — a moment o'er his face The tablet of unutterable thoughts Was traced — and then it faded as it came...
Página 319 - Well! thou art happy, and I feel That I should thus be happy too; For still my heart regards thy weal Warmly as it was wont to do. Thy husband's blest— and 'twill impart Some pangs to view his happier lot: But let them pass— Oh! how my heart Would hate him, if he loved thee not! When late I saw thy favourite child I thought my jealous heart would break; But when the unconscious infant smiled, I kiss'd it for its mother's sake. I...
Página 314 - He had no breath, no being, but in hers ; She was his voice ; he did not speak to her...
Página 45 - ... bee-tree ; and, being curious to witness the sport, I gladly accepted an invitation to accompany them. The party was headed by a veteran bee-hunter, a tall, lank fellow in homespun garb that hung loosely about his limbs, and a straw hat shaped not unlike a bee-hive. A comrade, equally uncouth in garb, and without a hat, straddled along at his heels, with a long rifle on his shoulder. To these succeeded half a dozen others, some with axes and some with rifles; for no one stirs far from the camp...
Página 155 - ... there is something inexpressibly lonely in the solitude of a prairie. The loneliness of a forest seems nothing to it. There the view is shut in by trees, and the imagination is left free to picture some livelier scene beyond. But here we have an immense extent of landscape without a sign of human existence. We have the consciousness of being far, far beyond the bounds of human habitation ; we feel as if moving in the midst of a desert world.
Página 314 - To live within himself ; she was his life, The ocean to the river of his thoughts, Which terminated all...
Página 327 - But the old mansion, and the accustom'd hall, And the remember'd chambers, and the place, The day, the hour, the sunshine, and the shade, All things pertaining to that place and hour, And her who was his destiny, came back And thrust themselves between him and the light : What business had they there at such a time?
Página 239 - Thus, while I ape the measure wild Of tales that charmed me yet a child, Rude though they be, still with the chime Return the thoughts of early time ; And feelings, roused in life's first day, (}low in the line, and prompt the lay.
Página 276 - Symmetrical, but deck'd with carvings quaint — Strange faces, like to men in masquerade, And here perhaps a monster, there a saint: The spring gush'd through grim mouths of granite made, And sparkled into basins, where it spent Its little torrent in a thousand bubbles, Like man's vain glory, and his vainer troubles.
Página 326 - They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things; And forms impalpable and unperceived Of others