The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and His Man Mark Antony O'Toole: With IllustrationsD. Appleton & Company, 1843 - 412 páginas |
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... road . Night had set in ; I passed through the last hamlet at a sharp trot , and , but a mile from home , pulled up at a steep hill that leads directly to the bridge . A lad who was running in an opposite direction stopped when he ...
... road . Night had set in ; I passed through the last hamlet at a sharp trot , and , but a mile from home , pulled up at a steep hill that leads directly to the bridge . A lad who was running in an opposite direction stopped when he ...
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... road ? " inquired the Colonel ; " in the present state of things soldiers are no favourites , and the chances are considerable , had you proceeded farther , that you would have been waylaid and abused . ' " Feaks ! and I believe your ...
... road ? " inquired the Colonel ; " in the present state of things soldiers are no favourites , and the chances are considerable , had you proceeded farther , that you would have been waylaid and abused . ' " Feaks ! and I believe your ...
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... road was grass - grown and disused ; but , being shorter and practicable to horsemen , I followed it rather than ride a few miles round . To dine and feed my horse , I halted at a public - house where four roads met ; and , after an ...
... road was grass - grown and disused ; but , being shorter and practicable to horsemen , I followed it rather than ride a few miles round . To dine and feed my horse , I halted at a public - house where four roads met ; and , after an ...
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... road . I hesitated which to take ; but of two bad paths , I chose the better , and followed the more beaten route . I rode a mile , topped the acclivity , and followed a path skirting a highland lake and traversing a long and heathy ...
... road . I hesitated which to take ; but of two bad paths , I chose the better , and followed the more beaten route . I rode a mile , topped the acclivity , and followed a path skirting a highland lake and traversing a long and heathy ...
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... road . The lake extended itself for more than a mile on one side ; and on the other a swamp , impassable alike to man and horse , stretched for a considerable distance between the rugged causeway and the bases of the contiguous high ...
... road . The lake extended itself for more than a mile on one side ; and on the other a swamp , impassable alike to man and horse , stretched for a considerable distance between the rugged causeway and the bases of the contiguous high ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acquaintance afterwards appearance arms Arrah better blessed Bromley Hall called Cammaran captain chasse-marée Clifford Clifford Park Colonel La Coste commander companion dark dead death devil Dick divil door Empecinado enemy England escape exclaimed eyes fancy father fire followed fortune fosterer French frigate gallant gentleman girl guerilla hand Hartley head heard heart Heaven Hector honest honour horse host hour hurried inquired Irish Isidora Juan Diez Julia Julius Cæsar lady light looked Lord Wellington luck Mark Antony Mary matter minutes morning mother murder never night O'Halloran observed once ould partida passed Peter Crotty poor posada present priest quaker quarter-master ratcatcher regiment replied retired returned road ruffian safe San Sebastian says scoundrel seemed Shemus Sloman smile soldier Soult stranger supper tell there's thing thou told took turned Urumea village voice voltigeur whispered William Rawlings woman ye'r young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 353 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Página 225 - Is thy face like thy mother's, my fair child ! Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart? When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled, And then we parted, — not as now we part, But with a hope. — Awaking with a start, The waters heave around me; and on high The winds lift up their voices: I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by, When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.
Página 103 - O, heaven, that such companions thou'dst unfold; And put in every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascal naked through the world, Even from the east to the west ! Emil.
Página 342 - Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me : the brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter*, more than I invent, or is invented on me : I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
Página 176 - Caesar shall forth. The things that threatened me, Ne'er looked but on my back ; when they shall see The face of Caesar, they are vanished.
Página 193 - And marshal me to knavery: Let it work; For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar...
Página 73 - And, not thinking at all about little Jackdaws, Deposits it straight by the side of his plate, While the nice little boys on his Eminence wait; Till, when nobody's dreaming of any such thing, That little Jackdaw hops off with the ring ! There's a cry and a shout, and a deuce of a rout...
Página 304 - Bring forth the horse !' — the horse was brought ; In truth he was a noble steed, A Tartar of the Ukraine breed, Who look'd as though the speed of thought Were in his limbs : but he was wild, Wild as the wild deer, and untaught, With spur and bridle Undefiled...
Página 43 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hairbreadth scapes i...
Página 317 - With ajl the excesses of plunder, they mingled the most degrading and horrible debauchery. Neither nobility of blood, nor the innocence of youth, nor the- tears of beauty, were respected. The licentiousness was cruel and boundless ; but it was inevitable in a savage war, in which sixteen different nations, opposite in their manners and their language, thought themselves at liberty to commit every crime, fully persuaded that all their disorders would be attributed to the nation alone*.