Mustang Gray: A RomanceLippincott, 1858 - 296 páginas |
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... bosom , tear- ing up a sweet plant here , and a lovely flower there — laying bare the roots of all that was green and beautiful to the parch- ing sun , and leaving his heart as dry and dusty as the trodden ways - what he might be then ...
... bosom , tear- ing up a sweet plant here , and a lovely flower there — laying bare the roots of all that was green and beautiful to the parch- ing sun , and leaving his heart as dry and dusty as the trodden ways - what he might be then ...
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... bosom of his own family any sign of human emotion . But beneath that cold exterior , there was a kindliness of heart , and a benevolence of feeling , well suited to the Christian character he so steadfastly pro- fessed . His wife had ...
... bosom of his own family any sign of human emotion . But beneath that cold exterior , there was a kindliness of heart , and a benevolence of feeling , well suited to the Christian character he so steadfastly pro- fessed . His wife had ...
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... bosom . His mother's death fell upon him like a clap of thunder from a cloudless sky , sudden , terrible , deadly in its awful might . His was not merely the affectionate regard of a child for a fond and indul- gent parent , but a love ...
... bosom . His mother's death fell upon him like a clap of thunder from a cloudless sky , sudden , terrible , deadly in its awful might . His was not merely the affectionate regard of a child for a fond and indul- gent parent , but a love ...
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... bosom , of the winds that played among my tresses . We should be miserable as lovers still more wretched as a married pair . " ` And if after this reasoning she found that love had grown up in her bosom , she would have crushed it out ...
... bosom , of the winds that played among my tresses . We should be miserable as lovers still more wretched as a married pair . " ` And if after this reasoning she found that love had grown up in her bosom , she would have crushed it out ...
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... bosom , and leap into yon dark flood with rapture . To die with your arms clasped around me would be unspeakable bliss , compared with the dark torture of living without you . " There was a terrible earnestness in the air and manner of ...
... bosom , and leap into yon dark flood with rapture . To die with your arms clasped around me would be unspeakable bliss , compared with the dark torture of living without you . " There was a terrible earnestness in the air and manner of ...
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arms arrived asked bank Bartolo Piedras beauty blood bosom Camanches Cape Fear Caravajal chaparal Corpus Christi cross danger dark deadly deep Diego Don Estevan doubt enemy eyes fear feeling fierce fight fire gathered girl Goliad gone Gray's Hacienda hand heard heart hope horses hour hundred Indians Inez John Allison Josefa journey Julia Allison knew Lancers lips listened look Lorenzo de Zavala Mabry Gray Matamoras Mexican Mexico miles Monterey morning Mustang Gray Nacogdoches never night once pack-horses party passed passion Pedro Pedro Gomez Pepe Prairie pursuit Rancho replied repose returned ride rifle Rio Grande river Robert Taliafero rode saddle San Antonio San Felipe Santa Anna Saxon Señor side sleep smugglers soon soul steed stream struggle sweet tell Texans Texas thing thought tion took tree troops turned voice waiting walked watched wild word
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Página 47 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid: and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Página 257 - I little thought, when first thy rein I slacked upon the banks of Seine, That Highland eagle e'er should feed On thy fleet limbs, my matchless steed ! Woe worth the chase, woe worth the day, That costs thy life, my gallant grey!
Página 101 - But me, not destined such delights to share, My prime of life in wandering spent and care; Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view; That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies ; My fortune leads to traverse realms alone, And find no spot of all the world my own.
Página 195 - Existence may be borne, and the deep root Of life and sufferance make its firm abode In bare and desolated bosoms : mute The camel labours with the heaviest load, And the wolf dies in silence...
Página 39 - The moving Moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside...
Página 84 - Away, away, my steed and I, Upon the pinions of the wind, All human dwellings left behind ; We sped like meteors through the sky, When with its crackling sound the night Is chequer'd with the northern light...
Página 223 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.
Página 159 - That swathes, as with a purple shroud, Benledi's distant hill. Is it the thunder's solemn sound That mutters deep and dread, Or echoes from the groaning ground The warrior's measured tread ? Is it the lightning's quivering glance That on the thicket streams, Or do they flash on spear and lance The sun's retiring beams...
Página 48 - And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me : for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched ; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Página 176 - Nor think of Ellen Douglas more ; But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove — By firm resolve to conquer love...