Richard Hurdis: A Tale of AlabamaRedfield, 1855 - 403 páginas |
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... resolved upon the enjoyment for which I had dreamed and prayed . I had no fears , for I was stout of limb , bold of heart , prompt in the use of my weapon , a fearless rider , and a fatal shot . Here are the inevitable possessions of ...
... resolved upon the enjoyment for which I had dreamed and prayed . I had no fears , for I was stout of limb , bold of heart , prompt in the use of my weapon , a fearless rider , and a fatal shot . Here are the inevitable possessions of ...
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... resolved to leave my mother . It was no pain to leave my father . He was a man , a strong one too , and could do ... resolve to leave him , than I had ever expected . His emotion arose , not so much from the love he bore me , as from the ...
... resolved to leave my mother . It was no pain to leave my father . He was a man , a strong one too , and could do ... resolve to leave him , than I had ever expected . His emotion arose , not so much from the love he bore me , as from the ...
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... resolved to choose me out an abode , which , if it had fewer attractions , had , at the same time , fewer trials for a bosom vexed like mine . I feared not the si- lence and the loneliness of the Indian habitations , when those to which ...
... resolved to choose me out an abode , which , if it had fewer attractions , had , at the same time , fewer trials for a bosom vexed like mine . I feared not the si- lence and the loneliness of the Indian habitations , when those to which ...
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... resolve to set out with me . The damsel to whom he was betrothed was poor , but she wore none of the deport- ment of poverty . The neighborhood thought her proud . I can not say that I thought with them . She was more reserved than ...
... resolve to set out with me . The damsel to whom he was betrothed was poor , but she wore none of the deport- ment of poverty . The neighborhood thought her proud . I can not say that I thought with them . She was more reserved than ...
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... resolved that she should see me go without a change of feature , without the quivering of a single muscle . I resolved to see her . A more prudent man would have gone away in silence and in secrecy . He would have as resolutely avoided ...
... resolved that she should see me go without a change of feature , without the quivering of a single muscle . I resolved to see her . A more prudent man would have gone away in silence and in secrecy . He would have as resolutely avoided ...
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Alabama answer beheld Ben Pickett better blood bosom brother Choctaws Clifton Colonel Grafton companion confidence dastard desire doubt Eberly emissary Emmeline enemy escape exclaimed eyes father fear feel fellow felt forget fortunate Foster gamblers Georgian girl give Haller hand hate hear heard heart hope horse instant Jane John Hurdis Julia keep knew laugh leave less lips look Marengo Mary Easterby matter mind mother murderer nature never night once paused perhaps person Pickett pistol poor prompt ready reply resolution resolved Richard Hurdis road secret seemed seen shot sight Sipsy sleep smile soon sorrow sort soul speak spect speech spirit spoke squire stranger striker sudden suffer sure talk Tar river tell there's thought tion to-morrow told trembled truth turned Tuscaloosa uttered voice watch Webber whipping-post William Carrington woods words wrong
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Página 162 - How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him for he is a Christian : But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 102 - She dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love : A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Página 350 - He's a bad surgeon that for pity spares The part corrupted till the gangrene spread, And all the body perish. He that's merciful Unto the bad is cruel to the good.
Página 156 - O'er all his heart shall Taste and Beauty sway ! Free on the sunny slope, or winding shore, With hermit steps to wander and adore!
Página 11 - Hurdis] during my early wanderings in that then wild country. The crimes here recorded were then actually in progress of commission; and some of my scenes and several of my persons, were sketched from the best local authorities.
Página 248 - Dare not adventure on the stubborne pray, Ne byte before, but rome from place to place To get a snatch when turned is his face.
Página 120 - ... the six mounted men; and, in spite of the strenuous efforts to shake him off, stuck on like the old man of the sea on the shoulders of Sinbad the sailor. Of those who seemed likely to succeed a majority wore only shirt and trowsers; though some of these had a scarlet band tied round the right wrist, for what purpose we cannot say. It also appears that the commissioners opened two sets of books, one for themselves and one for the public.
Página 369 - To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves ! Enter MYRRHA.
Página 6 - Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, BY JS REDFIELD, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Southern District of New York.
Página 65 - That glowed in generous blood, and had no care, And little thought of the future — followed him; — Some perch'd on gallant steeds, others, more slow, The infants and the matrons of the flock, In coach and jersey, — but all moving on To the new land of promise, full of dreams Of western riches, Mississippi-mad ! Then came the hands, some forty-five or more, Their moderate wealth...