Cooper's Works: Lionel LincolnJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1860 - American fiction |
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... seat , with an air of deep abstrac- tion , if not of cool indifference . A hint from the pliant Meriton , who had ventured to follow his master , that it would be more agreeable if he would relinquish his place , was disregarded , and ...
... seat , with an air of deep abstrac- tion , if not of cool indifference . A hint from the pliant Meriton , who had ventured to follow his master , that it would be more agreeable if he would relinquish his place , was disregarded , and ...
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... seating himself with composure , and deliberately placing his bundle by his side . " Go you to your palace in Tremont - street : it shall be my care that we meet again " The officer understood the character of his com- panion too 40 ...
... seating himself with composure , and deliberately placing his bundle by his side . " Go you to your palace in Tremont - street : it shall be my care that we meet again " The officer understood the character of his com- panion too 40 ...
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... seat in Devonshire is as large as any dozen edifices in Boston , public or private ; nay , we are proud of saying , that the king himself is lodged as well as the head of the Lincoln family , only when at his castle of Windsor ...
... seat in Devonshire is as large as any dozen edifices in Boston , public or private ; nay , we are proud of saying , that the king himself is lodged as well as the head of the Lincoln family , only when at his castle of Windsor ...
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... seat , the young man felt as much embarrassment as if he had found himself alone , for the first time , with the woman whom he had been pining , for months , to favour with a very particular communication . Whether it is that nature has ...
... seat , the young man felt as much embarrassment as if he had found himself alone , for the first time , with the woman whom he had been pining , for months , to favour with a very particular communication . Whether it is that nature has ...
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... seat , with a coolness that suffi- ciently denoted how little he cared about the matter . " But I am not disposed to have my right to claim near kindred with cousin Lionel at all dis- puted , " cried the young lady , with sudden anima ...
... seat , with a coolness that suffi- ciently denoted how little he cared about the matter . " But I am not disposed to have my right to claim near kindred with cousin Lionel at all dis- puted , " cried the young lady , with sudden anima ...
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Page 360 - 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 275 - ... battalion gallantly mounted the ramparts. In the shallow ditch Lionel passed the expiring marine and caught the dying and despairing look from his eyes, and in another instant he found himself in the presence of his foes. As company followed company into the defenceless redoubt the Americans sullenly retired by its rear, keeping the bayonets of the soldiers at bay with clubbed muskets and sinewy arms. When the whole issued upon the open ground, the husbandmen received a close and fatal fire from...
Page 312 - 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 264 - ... spectators. Notwithstanding the security with which the English general marshalled his warriors, he felt that the approaching contest would be a battle of no common incidents. The eyes of tens of thousands were fastened on his movements, and the occasion demanded the richest display of the pageantry of war. The troops formed with beautiful accuracy, and the columns moved steadily along the shore, and took their assigned stations under cover of the brow of the eminence. Their force was in some...
Page 226 - 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 third and fourth generation ?" Thank God, my sorrows and sins will end with Job, for there...