The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1871 - 568 Seiten |
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... eyes , and the pure , sweet , but unhelping heaven of May , quiver- ing from the limb of the cotton - wood . This is the wickedness of Lynch executions . Like old Tyburn , they rear more gallows - birds than they intimidate . The ...
... eyes , and the pure , sweet , but unhelping heaven of May , quiver- ing from the limb of the cotton - wood . This is the wickedness of Lynch executions . Like old Tyburn , they rear more gallows - birds than they intimidate . The ...
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... eyes lay lingeringly on the shingle of Civili- zation's last justice of the peace . There was a tin- shop in Seneca ; I think a lawyer's office ; and there were several dwelling - houses . After the darkness came on , and we rolled away ...
... eyes lay lingeringly on the shingle of Civili- zation's last justice of the peace . There was a tin- shop in Seneca ; I think a lawyer's office ; and there were several dwelling - houses . After the darkness came on , and we rolled away ...
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... eyes . Then between their walls began a hurrying interplay of lightning , and the great artillery combat of the heavens commenced in earnest . At first the adjoining masses had their duels to themselves , — battery fighting battery ...
... eyes . Then between their walls began a hurrying interplay of lightning , and the great artillery combat of the heavens commenced in earnest . At first the adjoining masses had their duels to themselves , — battery fighting battery ...
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... eyes lurks a Yankee waggery , which no English face , even the shrewdest , ever simulates . His hair is grizzled and wiry , such as belongs to the iron temperament . He is of the medium height , com- pactly made , and in every limb and ...
... eyes lurks a Yankee waggery , which no English face , even the shrewdest , ever simulates . His hair is grizzled and wiry , such as belongs to the iron temperament . He is of the medium height , com- pactly made , and in every limb and ...
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... eyes full of uncontrollable waggery , and a pair of hands skilled in every department of frontier craft , from throwing a lariat to building a house . His sight is as keen as an Indian's . This by itself makes him a capi-- tal shot ...
... eyes full of uncontrollable waggery , and a pair of hands skilled in every department of frontier craft , from throwing a lariat to building a house . His sight is as keen as an Indian's . This by itself makes him a capi-- tal shot ...
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