Wooing and Warring in the Wilderness: A Story of CanetuckeyDerby and Jackson, 1860 - 288 pages |
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Wooing and Warring in the Wilderness: A Story of Canetuckey Charles D. Kirk Affichage du livre entier - 1860 |
Wooing and Warring in the Wilderness: A Story of Canetuckey Charles D. Kirk Affichage du livre entier - 1860 |
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arms bank Basil Greene beautiful blessed blood blue boat bosom breast breath bright Burkitt cabin Campbell Canetuckey cheek clasp dark death deep Dobson Hardy earth escape eyes face fear feet fire flash floating forest Fort Cumberland friends gathered gentle girl gloom green alders guide promises hand hear heard heart heaven hills hope horse Indians Iroquois language Kenton Kentucky kiss knew land lassie leave Lexington light Limestone lips listen little Frenchman look Lucy Mary miniature park Monongahela rivers morning mother nature negroes ness never night Ohio party Pierre pioneer proud youth rifle river rude savages scene seat shining side Simon Kenton skiff sloop-of-war smile soon spile spring stream strong sweet tears Ten Thousand Greeks tender thought tion toil tree and leaf trees unsub voice Washburn weary wife wild wilderness wind woman woods words wounded yonder young
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Page 20 - Let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. For thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous; with favor wilt thou compass him as with a shield.
Page 280 - Round-hoof d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide : Look, what a horse should have, he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a...
Page 163 - For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue angrie and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet dayes and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My musick shows ye have your closes...
Page 33 - Big, bright, and fast, unknown to her they fell ; But still her lips refused to send — " Farewell ! " For in that word, that fatal word, howe'er We promise, hope, believe, there breathes despair.
Page 47 - Ha ! what a burst was that ! the ^olian strain Goes floating through the tangled passages Of the lone woods — and now it comes again — A multitudinous melody — like a rain Of glossy music under echoing trees, Over a ringing lake...
Page 103 - Shall I wasting in Despair, Die because a woman's fair? Or make pale my cheeks with care, Cause another's rosy are? Be she fairer than the Day, Or the Flowery Meads in May; If she be not so to me, What care I, how fair she be.
Page 223 - Ava, have been found within twenty miles of Lexington, Kentucky, in an ancient work. The murex sMl, is a sea shell fish, out of which the ancients procured the famous Tyrian purple dye, which was the color of the royal robes of kings, so celebrated in ancient times. Their component parts remained unchanged, and they were every way in an excellent state of preservation. These shells, so rare in India, are highly esteemed, and consecrated to their god, Mahadeva, whose character is the same with the...
Page 194 - In favor of forming a separate and independent Republic, under no special obligation of union, except such as might be most advantageous. " 2. In favor of entering into commercial arrangements with Spain, and of annexing Kentucky to Louisiana, with all the advantages offered. •' 3. Opposed to any Spanish connection, and in favor of forcing the free navigation of the Mississippi by the arms of the United States, with the invasion of Louisiana and West Florida. " 4. In favor of soliciting France...
Page 287 - Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero pulsanda tellus, nunc Saliaribus ornare pulvinar deorum tempus erat dapibus, sodales.
Page 131 - ... of the game, For this purpose, he would put his finger In his mouth until it got warm, and then raising it above his head, the side of his finger which first became cold, would tell him the course of the wind, and the direction of the chase would be accordingly modified. The points of the compass, too, were as necessary in the waste of woods as in that of the waters. The instrument for pointing out the navigation of the forest, was the appearance of the bark and the moss on the trunks of the...