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... wigwams , " returned her suitor , endeavour- ing to recount the feats of manliness that might reasonably be expected of one inclined to venture on so hazardous an expe- riment as matrimony . " The bargain with the young Captain for the ...
... wigwams , " returned her suitor , endeavour- ing to recount the feats of manliness that might reasonably be expected of one inclined to venture on so hazardous an expe- riment as matrimony . " The bargain with the young Captain for the ...
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... wigwam , where a council - fire was lighted , and an interpreter opened the subject , by placing the amount of the ransom of- fered , and the professions of peace with which the strangers came , in the fairest light before his auditors ...
... wigwam , where a council - fire was lighted , and an interpreter opened the subject , by placing the amount of the ransom of- fered , and the professions of peace with which the strangers came , in the fairest light before his auditors ...
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... wigwam ? " Had the voice of one long known to be in the grave broken on the ears of the family , it would scarcely have produced a deeper sensation , or have quickened the blood more violently about their hearts , than this sudden and ...
... wigwam ? " Had the voice of one long known to be in the grave broken on the ears of the family , it would scarcely have produced a deeper sensation , or have quickened the blood more violently about their hearts , than this sudden and ...
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... wigwam , but he asketh no leave to go on the hunt . He is a man ; -the next snow he will be a warrior . " " Silly boy ! This is some treachery of the savage , by which he has bound thy weakness with the fetters of his craftiness . Thy ...
... wigwam , but he asketh no leave to go on the hunt . He is a man ; -the next snow he will be a warrior . " " Silly boy ! This is some treachery of the savage , by which he has bound thy weakness with the fetters of his craftiness . Thy ...
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... wigwams , and said if the warriors would give them ground to plant , they would ask their God to look upon the red men . But when they grew strong , they forgot their words , and made liars of themselves . Oh , they are wicked knaves ...
... wigwams , and said if the warriors would give them ground to plant , they would ask their God to look upon the red men . But when they grew strong , they forgot their words , and made liars of themselves . Oh , they are wicked knaves ...
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The Borderers: Or, The Wept of Wish-ton-wish James Fenimore Cooper Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1833 |
The Borderers; Or, The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1835 |
The Borderers; Or, The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish: A Tale James Fenimore Cooper Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1849 |
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Sida 102 - Flashy people may burlesque these things, but when hundreds of the most sober people in a country, where they have as much mother- wit certainly as the rest of mankind, know them to be true, nothing but the absurd and froward spirit of Sadducism can question them.
Sida 258 - In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth ; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.
Sida 129 - There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, To tell us this. Ham. Why, right; you are in the right ; And so, without more circumstance at all, I hold it fit, that we shake hands, and part: You, as your business, and desire, shall point you; — For every man...
Sida 101 - When yond same star that's westward from the pole Had made his course to illume that part of heaven Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, The bell then beating one, — Enter Ghost. Mar. Peace, break thee off ; look, where it comes again ! Ber.
Sida 258 - Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
Sida 173 - What are these, So wither'd, and so wild in their attire ; That look not like the inhabitants o
Sida 259 - ... the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.