The Life and Times of Seargent Smith PrentissJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1884 - 442 páginas |
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... letters home he tells how monotonous was the life on the steamboat on that three weeks ' journey down the river . The boat on reaching the most difficult bars would lie up , lighten into barges , and send out pilots to sound the channel ...
... letters home he tells how monotonous was the life on the steamboat on that three weeks ' journey down the river . The boat on reaching the most difficult bars would lie up , lighten into barges , and send out pilots to sound the channel ...
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... teacher for her children , he rode out to " Rokeby , " and there for the first time met the family . Fortified with letters of recommendation he introduced himself , and presented them to my 16 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHAPTER II. ...
... teacher for her children , he rode out to " Rokeby , " and there for the first time met the family . Fortified with letters of recommendation he introduced himself , and presented them to my 16 THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHAPTER II. ...
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... letter from my mother to her neighbor , Captain Ma- gruder , a retired sea - captain , who had appropriately named his place of retirement " Mount Ararat . " The remarkable first impression Prentiss made in his interview with the old ...
... letter from my mother to her neighbor , Captain Ma- gruder , a retired sea - captain , who had appropriately named his place of retirement " Mount Ararat . " The remarkable first impression Prentiss made in his interview with the old ...
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... letters engraved on the back— S. S. P. to G. B. S. - are as distinct as though cut but yesterday . The watch itself still faithfully notes the fleeting hours as they pass , a memento of the solemn injunction and of its having been ...
... letters engraved on the back— S. S. P. to G. B. S. - are as distinct as though cut but yesterday . The watch itself still faithfully notes the fleeting hours as they pass , a memento of the solemn injunction and of its having been ...
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... letters from a man who afterwards became chief justice of New Hampshire , and my younger brothers were taught at one time by no less a man than the present distinguished Judge Woodbury of the Supreme Court of the United States ...
... letters from a man who afterwards became chief justice of New Hampshire , and my younger brothers were taught at one time by no less a man than the present distinguished Judge Woodbury of the Supreme Court of the United States ...
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