Mustang Gray: A RomanceLippincott, 1858 - 296 páginas |
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Página 36
... sleep , while the evil one is ever near , leading us on over golden paths and through flowering meads until the irrevocable deed is committed , and then he leaves us , but he leaves a demon with a whip of scorpions to torture the wretch ...
... sleep , while the evil one is ever near , leading us on over golden paths and through flowering meads until the irrevocable deed is committed , and then he leaves us , but he leaves a demon with a whip of scorpions to torture the wretch ...
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... sleeping room and the public one , there was nothing save a board partition , through which every sound was audible , while large cracks in the rough wall afforded almost equal advantages to the sense of sight . Sleep was impossible ...
... sleeping room and the public one , there was nothing save a board partition , through which every sound was audible , while large cracks in the rough wall afforded almost equal advantages to the sense of sight . Sleep was impossible ...
Página 79
... sleeps . " " Not so , Bartolo , " responded his sister . " If any harm comes to him through you , I will myself denounce you to the Political Chief at San Antonio de Bexar . " It is not easy to describe the stare of astonishment with ...
... sleeps . " " Not so , Bartolo , " responded his sister . " If any harm comes to him through you , I will myself denounce you to the Political Chief at San Antonio de Bexar . " It is not easy to describe the stare of astonishment with ...
Página 81
... sleep . We can talk it over in the morning . " Piedras was apparently of the same opinion ; for he made no other response than that of bidding his sister and brother- in - law " good night . " In that region , and among that people , it ...
... sleep . We can talk it over in the morning . " Piedras was apparently of the same opinion ; for he made no other response than that of bidding his sister and brother- in - law " good night . " In that region , and among that people , it ...
Página 83
... Sleep always with your bowie- knife in your belt , and your rifle in reach . Let no one know that you wear this ... sleeping beneath a roof at night . If he arrived at a Rancho about the usual hour for stopping , he " put up " with its ...
... Sleep always with your bowie- knife in your belt , and your rifle in reach . Let no one know that you wear this ... sleeping beneath a roof at night . If he arrived at a Rancho about the usual hour for stopping , he " put up " with its ...
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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...