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... horses of Arabian build ; the heavy English dray horse was nowhere to be seen , the breed as I afterwards learned not being cultivated , from a dislike to its ponderousness . دو The lower part of Wall - street presented a busy mart ...
... horses of Arabian build ; the heavy English dray horse was nowhere to be seen , the breed as I afterwards learned not being cultivated , from a dislike to its ponderousness . دو The lower part of Wall - street presented a busy mart ...
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... horses of high mettle . The trappings of these animals were of a novel description , bells being appended to various ... horse , and his nonchalance and perfect command of his team were surprising . This boat was some sixty yards in ...
... horses of high mettle . The trappings of these animals were of a novel description , bells being appended to various ... horse , and his nonchalance and perfect command of his team were surprising . This boat was some sixty yards in ...
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... horses sans driver , who might have been found either drunk or quarrel- ing at the other end of the city . And although the horses were always impounded , and a fine inflicted , still the nuisance continued without abatement , in fact ...
... horses sans driver , who might have been found either drunk or quarrel- ing at the other end of the city . And although the horses were always impounded , and a fine inflicted , still the nuisance continued without abatement , in fact ...
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... horse , and , after a seven miles ' ride through a country dotted with farm houses , which had a desolate look , and the lands appertaining to which were subdivided by zigzag log fences ( hedges being unknown in the back settlements ) ...
... horse , and , after a seven miles ' ride through a country dotted with farm houses , which had a desolate look , and the lands appertaining to which were subdivided by zigzag log fences ( hedges being unknown in the back settlements ) ...
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... horse in the soft bed of the swamp , which is some miles in extent , and had perished miserably . The day following , I visited the nearest point from which the cries were heard , but I could discern no sign of the sufferer , nor could ...
... horse in the soft bed of the swamp , which is some miles in extent , and had perished miserably . The day following , I visited the nearest point from which the cries were heard , but I could discern no sign of the sufferer , nor could ...
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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...