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... Flanders ; this breastplate , Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point - blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero . Had it not been of shear - steel ...
... Flanders ; this breastplate , Well I remember the day ! once saved my life in a skirmish ; Here in front you can see the very dint of the bullet Fired point - blank at my heart by a Spanish arcabucero . Had it not been of shear - steel ...
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... Flanders , as he himself has recorded ; Finally he was stabbed by his friend , the orator Brutus ! Now , do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders , When the rear - guard of his army retreated , the front giving way too ...
... Flanders , as he himself has recorded ; Finally he was stabbed by his friend , the orator Brutus ! Now , do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders , When the rear - guard of his army retreated , the front giving way too ...
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... Flanders , How with the people of God he had chosen to suffer afflic- tion , How , in return for his zeal , they had made him Captain of Plymouth ; He was a gentleman born , could trace his pedigree plainly Back to Hugh Standish of ...
... Flanders , How with the people of God he had chosen to suffer afflic- tion , How , in return for his zeal , they had made him Captain of Plymouth ; He was a gentleman born , could trace his pedigree plainly Back to Hugh Standish of ...
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... Flanders . " Long have you been on your errand , " he said , with a cheery demeanor , Even as one who is waiting an answer , and fears not the issue . " Not far off is the house , although the woods are between us ; But you have ...
... Flanders . " Long have you been on your errand , " he said , with a cheery demeanor , Even as one who is waiting an answer , and fears not the issue . " Not far off is the house , although the woods are between us ; But you have ...
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... Flanders , - Slept as a soldier sleeps in his bivouac , ready for action . But with the dawn he arose ; in the twilight Alden beheld him Put on his corslet of steel , and all the rest of his armor , Buckle about his waist his trusty ...
... Flanders , - Slept as a soldier sleeps in his bivouac , ready for action . But with the dawn he arose ; in the twilight Alden beheld him Put on his corslet of steel , and all the rest of his armor , Buckle about his waist his trusty ...
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angels answered John Alden battle beautiful beheld boy's breath Cæsar Captain of Plymouth Catawba wine CINQUE PORTS cloud Damascus dark dead death desert door dreams dreary England EPIMETHEUS errand excellent Elder eyes face feel feet Filled fire fireside Flanders Flower forest friendship Garden of Eden Gleamed graves hand haunted heard heart Helgoland Indian Julius Cæsar Lamberton land laughed light living long thoughts look Lord loud matchlock meadow Miles Standish mist night noble North Cape o'er ocean Oliver Basselin pause Pecksuot phantom prayer Priscilla Puritan maiden Rose Standish sachem sail Sandalphon sang scabbard ship shore silent singing smile soldier song sound spake speak stalwart stood strange sudden sweet swift Thereupon answered John thou thoughts of youth tide unseen Vaud Vaudeville Victor Galbraith village voice walls Wat Tyler Wattawamat wild wind wind's words youth are long