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... ancient doings of the days that made up the century following the discoveries of Samuel de Champlain . Very little of authentic record remains of the earliest years , and one is somewhat dependent upon his color box and his palette ...
... ancient doings of the days that made up the century following the discoveries of Samuel de Champlain . Very little of authentic record remains of the earliest years , and one is somewhat dependent upon his color box and his palette ...
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... ancient halls , or left the prints of their shoes along the grit of the rude roads that passed their back doors ; for , these old homesteads , and their like old interiors , touch one with a quick sensibility to the charm of their old ...
... ancient halls , or left the prints of their shoes along the grit of the rude roads that passed their back doors ; for , these old homesteads , and their like old interiors , touch one with a quick sensibility to the charm of their old ...
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... Ancient Trading Days , ( Stackpole's Landing ) 351 Boon Island Light 354 Frost's Hill 364 Headband , Pleiads of Piscataqua 367 Initial 367 Map 368 Fort Point Badger's Island Portsmouth Harbor Jaffrey's Point · 375 376 377 378 Wentworth ...
... Ancient Trading Days , ( Stackpole's Landing ) 351 Boon Island Light 354 Frost's Hill 364 Headband , Pleiads of Piscataqua 367 Initial 367 Map 368 Fort Point Badger's Island Portsmouth Harbor Jaffrey's Point · 375 376 377 378 Wentworth ...
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... ancient things . One of the Sleepy Hol- lows of the Maine coast , this Bra'boat Harbor country , with its flats bare at low tide and its sweep of marsh grasses bending under the salty winds , is prolific in sug- gestions of old wharves ...
... ancient things . One of the Sleepy Hol- lows of the Maine coast , this Bra'boat Harbor country , with its flats bare at low tide and its sweep of marsh grasses bending under the salty winds , is prolific in sug- gestions of old wharves ...
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... ancient designation of the Sacoes . According to Bullard , it was to be translated , the Snow - shoes River , taking its name from the pond from which it derives its source , and the shape of which the Sacoes likened to the shape of a ...
... ancient designation of the Sacoes . According to Bullard , it was to be translated , the Snow - shoes River , taking its name from the pond from which it derives its source , and the shape of which the Sacoes likened to the shape of a ...
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Agamenticus ancient Annethe Appledore Boon Island Boston Bray built Cabot Cape Cape Ann Capt Casco Bay Champernowne Chauncey's Creek church coast color Court Cove Cutt door doubt early England English father fish gable garrison house Gorgeana Gorges gray Harbor headlands hereabout Hill hither Hontvet Indian Island Light Isles of Shoals John John Bray John Cabot Kittery Point Lady Pepperrell land lived look M'Clary Maine Province manse Mary Massachusetts Bay meeting-house night old houses old Kittery old York once one's parish Pepperrell house person Piscataqua Piscataqua River Plymouth Portsmouth province of Maine quaint rocks romance roofs rude Saco sail sands savage says settlement settlers shadows Shapleigh ships shore skipper Smith Smutty Nose Sparhawk Spruce Creek Star Island stone story suggestive tavern things tide tion to-day town Trickey voyage wall Warehouse Point Wentworth wife William Pepperrell wind window witch woman woods York River
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Page 240 - RIDE. OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped...
Page 220 - Here Lies the Body of Mr XEHEMIAH ROY CE Who Departed This Life Feb (?)— AD 1791 In the both Year of His Age Behold and see, as you pass by As you are now, so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 36 - ... to sail to all parts, countries, and seas of the east, of the west, and of the north...
Page 12 - And further, by these, my son, be admonished : of making many books there is no end ; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
Page 37 - Cabot, and he is styled the great admiral. Vast honour is paid him; he dresses in silk, and these English run after him like mad people, so that he can enlist as many of them as he pleases, and a number of our own rogues besides.
Page 203 - They rested there, escaped awhile From cares that wear the life away, To eat the lotus of the Nile And drink the poppies of Cathay...
Page 276 - Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide, And his marvellous inkhorn at his side ; Stirring the while in the shallow pool Of his brains for the lore he learned at school...
Page 297 - When the barley-harvest is ripe and shorn, And the dry husks fall from the standing corn; As long as Nature shall not grow old, Nor drop her work from her doting hold...
Page 169 - Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark, Liver of blaspheming Jew, Gall of goat and slips of yew Silver'd in the moon's eclipse, Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips, Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab : Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,* For the ingredients of our cauldron.