Cooper's Novels, Volume 18Stringer and Townsend, 1854 |
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... heart's core ! " The reply of the youth was interrupted by sudden and violent shrieks , that burst rudely on the stillness of the place , chilling the very blood of those who heard them , with their piteousness . 22 LIONEL LINCOLN .
... heart's core ! " The reply of the youth was interrupted by sudden and violent shrieks , that burst rudely on the stillness of the place , chilling the very blood of those who heard them , with their piteousness . 22 LIONEL LINCOLN .
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... blood and country , " , " the stranger muttered , " and I honour him ! " It might have been the sudden recollection of the danger of those allusions , which the officer so well understood , and to which his accidental asso- ciation with ...
... blood and country , " , " the stranger muttered , " and I honour him ! " It might have been the sudden recollection of the danger of those allusions , which the officer so well understood , and to which his accidental asso- ciation with ...
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... blood runs ! Ma'am Lechmere ! I do believe , mother , that Ma'am Lechmere has moved ; for I've been trying to find her house this hour , because there's a gen- tleman who landed from the ship wanted Job to show him the way . " " What ...
... blood runs ! Ma'am Lechmere ! I do believe , mother , that Ma'am Lechmere has moved ; for I've been trying to find her house this hour , because there's a gen- tleman who landed from the ship wanted Job to show him the way . " " What ...
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... blood , in the direct line , to value the collateral drops of an intermar- riage . " " Pardon me , Major Lincoln ; her father , Colo- nel Dynevor , was certainly an Englishman of an ancient and honourable name , but no family in the ...
... blood , in the direct line , to value the collateral drops of an intermar- riage . " " Pardon me , Major Lincoln ; her father , Colo- nel Dynevor , was certainly an Englishman of an ancient and honourable name , but no family in the ...
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... blood , as to ren- der it an easy task for a man accustomed to the world , as he had been , to remove any little embar- rassments , which might have beset a less practised youth , by acting as his own usher . This he cer- tainly ...
... blood , as to ren- der it an easy task for a man accustomed to the world , as he had been , to remove any little embar- rassments , which might have beset a less practised youth , by acting as his own usher . This he cer- tainly ...
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Page vi - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Page 6 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned ;
Page 90 - If any man can show just cause, why they may not lawfully be joined together, let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace.
Page 42 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 228 - Ah! Major Lincoln, a healthier, and a stouter, and a finer boy was not to be seen in the Bay province, till the child had reached his fifth year ! then, then it was that the judgment of heaven fell on mother and son — sickness made him what you see, a being with the form, but without the reason of man, and I have grown the wretch I am. But it has all been foretold, and warnings enough have I had of it all! for is it not said, that he "will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children until the...
Page 276 - Americans, exhausted of their ammunition, now sunk sullenly back, a few hurling stones it their foes, in desperate indignation. The cannon of the British had been brought to enfilade their short breast-work, which was no longer tenable ; and as the columns approached closer to the low rampart, it became a mutual protection to the adverse parties. " Hurrah ! for the Royal Irish !" again shouted M'Fuse, rushing up the trifling ascent, which was but of little more than his own height.