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... matter under that mortar - board of yours as was accounted to the story - telling spouse of the fabled Schariar ; tales , too , as veracious and fascinating . Kindly accept this inscription from a fellow author as an 14 ...
... matter under that mortar - board of yours as was accounted to the story - telling spouse of the fabled Schariar ; tales , too , as veracious and fascinating . Kindly accept this inscription from a fellow author as an 14 ...
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... matter - of - fact annalist . " Heresy ! " cries another , whose house of cards is toppling as some new document is wrenched from its musty hiding - place . Well , much that was once heresy is now a well - recognized truth . The ...
... matter - of - fact annalist . " Heresy ! " cries another , whose house of cards is toppling as some new document is wrenched from its musty hiding - place . Well , much that was once heresy is now a well - recognized truth . The ...
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... Cortereal being the hereditary governor of Terceira , a distinction accorded him for his alleged discoveries and great learning in matters of navigation . It is asserted by the Portuguese that Ioao Vaz anticipated 46 THE SOKOKI TRAIL.
... Cortereal being the hereditary governor of Terceira , a distinction accorded him for his alleged discoveries and great learning in matters of navigation . It is asserted by the Portuguese that Ioao Vaz anticipated 46 THE SOKOKI TRAIL.
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... matters of " Maine , Kohl- historical research . However startling the assertion that Portuguese 1504 Amerigo Vespucii never saw the continent which received his name , nevertheless the assertion is true , and is as well established as ...
... matters of " Maine , Kohl- historical research . However startling the assertion that Portuguese 1504 Amerigo Vespucii never saw the continent which received his name , nevertheless the assertion is true , and is as well established as ...
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... matter , as well as Dermer . Five years later there were fifty vessels fishing along this coast , and which at that time from a shore point of view must have presented a lively aspect . But to go back to the forerunners of these pros ...
... matter , as well as Dermer . Five years later there were fifty vessels fishing along this coast , and which at that time from a shore point of view must have presented a lively aspect . But to go back to the forerunners of these pros ...
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Abenake aborigine acres Alger ancient Bagnall Black Point Blue Point Boaden Bonython Boston built cabin Cabot Cammock Cammock's Neck Cape Elizabeth Captain Casco Bay Casco Neck Champlain church Cleeve and Tucker Cleeve's coast colony court Creek doubtless Drogeo Dunstan eastward England English Ferry fire fishing garrison Gorges Gorges patents grant Hakluyt hath haue Henry Jocelyn hither House Island Indian interest Isles of Shoals John Winter Kittery land later letter Levett located Lygonia Mackworth Maine Maine province marshes Massachusetts miles mill mouth Nature night once Owascoag patent Pemaquid perhaps Piscataqua Pond Prout's Neck province Puritan Richard Vines Richmond's Island Rigby road Robert Jordan Rocks romance rude Saco River sailed sands savages says Scarborough Scottow settlement settlers ship shore smokes Sokoki Sokoki Trail Spurwink story tide tion Trelawny verdure voyage waters wild winds Winnock's Neck Winter Harbor Winthrop woods
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Page 273 - Were I the Moor, I would not be lago : In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 124 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told.
Page 73 - T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 69 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Page 124 - Unwarmed by any sunset light The gray day darkened into night, — A night made hoary with the swarm And whirl-dance of the blinding storm, As zigzag wavering to and fro Crossed and recrossed the winge'd snow...
Page 459 - God we might find them ; and we had rather trust Providence with our lives, yea, die for our country, than try to return without seeing them, if we might, and be called cowards for our pains.
Page 89 - tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 247 - I tell thee, gold is more plentiful there than copper is with us; and for as much red copper as I can bring, I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their...
Page 252 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 411 - Mts. carrying a hare along with them and so escaped. After a while the Powaw sent the hare away, who not returning, emboldened thereby they descended, and lived many years after, and had many children, from whom the Country was filled again with Indians.