Mustang Gray: A RomanceLippincott, 1858 - 296 páginas |
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... keep our eyes forever fixed on Heaven . I have made no attempt to paint one of those immaculate characters without which , a Novel is generally considered a failure by the sentimental reader . I have written of men and women as I know ...
... keep our eyes forever fixed on Heaven . I have made no attempt to paint one of those immaculate characters without which , a Novel is generally considered a failure by the sentimental reader . I have written of men and women as I know ...
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... keep absolute want from her dwelling . From that hour she devoted herself with a tender and never - ceasing care to the training and education of her son , the only pledge of her brief and happy union with the man around whom all the ...
... keep absolute want from her dwelling . From that hour she devoted herself with a tender and never - ceasing care to the training and education of her son , the only pledge of her brief and happy union with the man around whom all the ...
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... keeping of the servants . Beneath my roof you will find a more cheer- ful home than your own . After a week or two , it will be time enough to begin to consider what is best for your interests under existing circumstances . My advice I ...
... keeping of the servants . Beneath my roof you will find a more cheer- ful home than your own . After a week or two , it will be time enough to begin to consider what is best for your interests under existing circumstances . My advice I ...
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... keeping . I shall love you as More than a brother you can never be to me . Our hearts are a sister always . Go out into the world as you propose , where you will meet with lovelier forms and brighter eyes than mine . In a little while ...
... keeping . I shall love you as More than a brother you can never be to me . Our hearts are a sister always . Go out into the world as you propose , where you will meet with lovelier forms and brighter eyes than mine . In a little while ...
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... keep his friend advised of whatever success attended him . In a little while he wrote that he had been fortunate enough to secure a situation in the business house of an old friend of his mother , and had commenced the career of life ...
... keep his friend advised of whatever success attended him . In a little while he wrote that he had been fortunate enough to secure a situation in the business house of an old friend of his mother , and had commenced the career of life ...
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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...