The Price of the Prairie: A Story of KansasA.C. McClurg & Company, 1910 - 489 Seiten |
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... watched him shutting out that red bar of light now and then , till he melted into the shadows . Meanwhile the children were chattering like sparrows and had not noticed me . " Would you know it , Marjie , if you thaw it again ? " lisped ...
... watched him shutting out that red bar of light now and then , till he melted into the shadows . Meanwhile the children were chattering like sparrows and had not noticed me . " Would you know it , Marjie , if you thaw it again ? " lisped ...
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... watched it from my window many a night . When it winked and blinked , I knew somebody inside the shop was passing between it and the line of the chink . I did not speak of it . I was never accused of telling all I knew . My father often ...
... watched it from my window many a night . When it winked and blinked , I knew somebody inside the shop was passing between it and the line of the chink . I did not speak of it . I was never accused of telling all I knew . My father often ...
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... watched him till he had passed Judson's place and was in the shadows beyond the church . He had on a new red blanket with a circle of white right in the middle , a good target for an arrow , only I'd never sneak up behind him . If I ...
... watched him till he had passed Judson's place and was in the shadows beyond the church . He had on a new red blanket with a circle of white right in the middle , a good target for an arrow , only I'd never sneak up behind him . If I ...
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... watched him more closely than the men did , and we knew him better . He was not the only one of our town who drank too freely . Four decades ago the law was not the righteous force it is to - day , and we looked upon many sights which ...
... watched him more closely than the men did , and we knew him better . He was not the only one of our town who drank too freely . Four decades ago the law was not the righteous force it is to - day , and we looked upon many sights which ...
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... watched over by the big cottonwood , breaks through the height and finds its way to the Neosho . The watershed between the river and Fingal's Creek is here only a high swell , and straight toward the west it is level as a floor . The ...
... watched over by the big cottonwood , breaks through the height and finds its way to the Neosho . The watershed between the river and Fingal's Creek is here only a high swell , and straight toward the west it is level as a floor . The ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Amos Judson anyhow Arickaree asked Aunt Candace battle beautiful Bill Mead Black Kettle bluff Bud Anderson bushes called Cam Gentry caught cavalry Cheyennes Cliff Street Custer dark death eyes face Father Le Claire Fingal's Creek Fort Wallace gave George Barr McCutcheon girl goin gone hand heard heart Hemingway Hermit's Cave horses Indian Injun Jean Pahusca John Baronet Judge Baronet Kansas keep Kiowas knew land letter Lettie Conlow light looked Marjie Marjie's mother Neosho never night O'Meara O'mie O'mie's Osage Phil Baronet Plains pony prairie priest Rachel Melrose Red Range river Rockport Saline Valley shadows smiled soldiers spoke Springvale stood story sweet Tell Mapleson There's thing thought Tillhurst told Topeka town trail turned twilight valley voice waiting Whately Whately's word young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 168 - I have eaten your bread and salt, I have drunk your water and wine; The deaths ye died I have watched beside, And the lives that ye led were mine. Was there aught that I did not share In vigil or toil or ease,— One joy or woe that I did not know, Dear hearts across the seas? I have written the tale of our life For a sheltered people's mirth, In jesting guise — but ye are wise, And ye know what the jest is worth.
Seite 99 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming...
Seite 244 - You. Lear. Dost thou know me, fellow? Kent. No, sir ; but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.
Seite 292 - But you were always a good man of business, Jacob," faltered" Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. " Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. " Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!
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Seite 132 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
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Seite 261 - A BLUSH as of roses Where rose never grew ! Great drops on the bunch-grass, But not of the dew ! A taint in the sweet air For wild bees to shun ! A stain that shall never Bleach out in the sun...