An Englishman's Travels in America: His Observations of Life and Manners in the Free and Slave States |
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... appeared necessary that the vessel's head should be again put seaward ; but this the captain was evidently anxious to avoid , as it involved the risk of protracting the voyage . A general rummage for ammunition was therefore ordered ...
... appeared necessary that the vessel's head should be again put seaward ; but this the captain was evidently anxious to avoid , as it involved the risk of protracting the voyage . A general rummage for ammunition was therefore ordered ...
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... appeared like our pilot to be possessed of considerable notions of power and authority . After taking a rather cursory inspection they left the vessel , and we , to our great joy ( a case of small pox having occurred during the passage ) ...
... appeared like our pilot to be possessed of considerable notions of power and authority . After taking a rather cursory inspection they left the vessel , and we , to our great joy ( a case of small pox having occurred during the passage ) ...
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... appeared " redolent of pigs , poultry , and sundry other good things appertaining to rural life . " On arriving at ... appearance , and certainly in a commanding position , I was sub- sequently informed is little more than a mimic fort ...
... appeared " redolent of pigs , poultry , and sundry other good things appertaining to rural life . " On arriving at ... appearance , and certainly in a commanding position , I was sub- sequently informed is little more than a mimic fort ...
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... appearance gives to a stranger an impression of its extent and importance . It has been aptly and accurately described as a dense pack of buildings , comprising every imaginable variety , and of all known orders of modernized GOING ...
... appearance gives to a stranger an impression of its extent and importance . It has been aptly and accurately described as a dense pack of buildings , comprising every imaginable variety , and of all known orders of modernized GOING ...
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... appearance , every description of goods being piled heterogeneously before the warehouse- doors of their respective owners in the open thoroughfare , which is at this part very wide . Auctioneers were here busily engaged in the dis ...
... appearance , every description of goods being piled heterogeneously before the warehouse- doors of their respective owners in the open thoroughfare , which is at this part very wide . Auctioneers were here busily engaged in the dis ...
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Page 131 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted!
Page 32 - THE STEAMBOAT SEE how yon flaming herald treads The ridged and rolling waves, As, crashing o'er their crested heads, She bows her surly slaves ! With foam before and fire behind, She rends the clinging sea, That flies before the roaring wind Beneath her hissing lee. The morning spray, like sea-born flowers, With heaped and glistening bells, Falls round her fast, in ringing showers, With every wave that swells ; And, burning o'er the midnight deep, In lurid fringes thrown, The living gems of ocean...
Page 189 - Jonathan he composed a tune, and with much gravity recommended it to the officers, as one of the most celebrated airs of martial music. The joke took, to the no small amusement of the British corps. Brother Jonathan exclaimed it was nation fine...
Page 1 - A few short hours, and he will rise To give the morrow birth ; And I shall hail the main and skies, But not my mother earth. Deserted is my own good hall, Its hearth is desolate ; Wild weeds are gathering on the wall, My dog howls at the gate.
Page 188 - ... on the left of the British Army — some with long coats, some with short coats, and others with no coats at all...