The Story of the FilibustersT. F. Unwin, 1891 - 373 sidor |
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Adam Huntsman adventurers Allies American arms army asked battle battle of Rivas bear Bee hunter began boat California called camp Captain carried Central America Colonel command Costa Ricans Creek Crockett David Crockett dogs dollars enemy expedition eyes Falange fight filibusters fire followed force garrison Gaston gave gentleman go ahead Granada Guaymas hand head heard Henningsen Honduras honour horses hundred hunt Indians Jackson killed know'd Lake Nicaragua land Legitimist lived looked marched Masaya Mexican mighty miles morning mustang Nacogdoches native never Nicaragua night Obion river officers party poor President President of Nicaragua pretty prisoners returned rifle Rivas river San Juan Santa Santa Anna sent shot soldier Sonora soon Spanish steamer surrender Texas Texian Thimblerig thimbles thing thought told took town tree turned United waggoner Walker wounded
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Sida 264 - I had done the other. Night now came on, but no word from my dogs yet. I afterwards found they had treed the bear about five miles off, near to a man's house, and had barked at it the whole enduring night. Poor fellows ! many a time they looked for me, and wondered why I didn't come, for they knowed there was no mistake in me, and I know'd they were as good as ever fluttered.
Sida 15 - If this call is neglected, I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country. VICTORY OR DEATH.
Sida 15 - The enemy has demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise, the garrison are to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. I shall never surrender or retreat.
Sida 301 - Job had flung it there on purpose to tempt me. I was not slow in raising it to the counter, the rum followed of course, and I wish I may be shot, if I didn't, before the day was over, get ten quarts for the same identical skin, and from a fellow too, who in those parts was considered as sharp as a steel trap, and as bright as a pewter button.
Sida 359 - I'm shaggy as a bear, wolfish about the head, active as a cougar, and can grin like a hyena, until the bark will curl off a gum log. There's a sprinkling of all sorts in me, from the lion down to the skunk ; and before the war is over you'll pronounce me an entire zoological institute, or I miss a figure in my calculation. I promise to swallow Santa Anna without gagging, if you will only skewer back his ears, and grease his head a little.
Sida 308 - I went to the ground from which he had risen, and there were the prints of his two thumbs, plunged up to the balls in the mellow earth, about the distance of a man's eyes apart; and the ground around was broken up as if two stags had been engaged upon it.
Sida 301 - The whole family were geniuses. His father was the inventor of wooden nutmegs, by which Job said he might have made a fortune, if he had only taken out a patent and kept the business in his own hands; his mother, Patience, manufactured the first...
Sida 198 - I'll hang on to it, like a wax plaster. The whole book is my own, and every sentiment and sentence in it.
Sida 270 - But all this wouldn't do; for my blood was now getting cold, and the chills coming all over me. I was so tired, too, that I could hardly walk; but I thought I would do the best I could to save...
Sida 364 - ... against the spot where I was snoring. I turned out pretty smart and mounted the rampart. The gun was charged again, a fellow stepped forth to touch her off, but before he could apply the match I let him have it, and he keeled over. A second stepped up, snatched the match from the hand of the dying man, but Thimblerig, who had followed me, handed me his rifle, and the next instant the Mexican was stretched on the earth beside the first. A third came up to the cannon, my companion handed me another...