St. Nicholas, Volume 20Mary Mapes Dodge Scribner & Company, 1893 |
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Page 630 - We were entertained with all love and kindness, and with as much bounty (after their manner) as they could possibly devise. We found the people most gentle, loving, and faithful, void of all guile and treason, and such as live after the manner of the golden age.
Page 779 - He had no sooner set the cup out of his hand, but a demi-culverin shot struck away the cup and a cooper's plane that stood by the mainmast, and ran out on the other side of the ship ; which nothing dismayed our General, for he ceased not to encourage us, saying, " Fear nothing ! For GOD, who hath preserved me from this shot, will also deliver us from these traitors and villains!
Page 630 - Occam ; and the evening following we came to an island which they call Roanoak, distant from the harbour by which we entered seven leagues ; and at the north end thereof was a village of nine houses built of cedar and fortified round about with sharp trees to keep out their enemies, and the entrance into it made like a turnpike very artificially...
Page 797 - Ez fer war, I call it murder, — There you hev it plain an' flat; I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment fer that; God hez sed so plump an' fairly, It's ez long ez it is broad, An' you've gut to git up airly Ef you want to take in God.
Page 629 - ... side next to her body, and before her a piece of the same : about her forehead she had a...
Page 630 - He was very just of his promise: for many times we delivered him merchandise upon his word, but ever he came within the day and performed his promise.
Page 576 - Frederick road, by which means we were obliged to go the other eight through the woods, where we wandered two hours without finding a guide or the path. Fortunately a straggling black came up with us, and we engaged him as a guide to extricate us out of our difficulty ; but woods are all you see from Baltimore until you reach the city, which is only so in name.
Page 650 - Run in for me — that's a good boy — ask for Dr. Stratford's mail," the teacher whispered, bending over me. It seemed an age before I finally got back to her, with the paper in its postmarked wrapper buttoned up inside my jacket. I had never been in so fierce and determined a crowd before, and I emerged from it at last, confused in wits and panting for breath. I was still looking about through the gloom in a foolish way for Miss Stratford, when I felt her hand laid sharply on my shoulder. " Well...
Page 650 - Stratford stopped, and spread the paper open. I see her still, white-faced, under the flickering gaslight, her black curls making a strange dark bar between the pale-straw hat and the white of her shoulder shawl and muslin dress, her hands trembling as they held up the extended sheet. She scanned the columns swiftly, skimmingly for a time, as I could see by the way she moved her round chin up and down. Then she came to a part which called for closer reading. The paper shook perceptibly now, as she...
Page 484 - It must be the rainy weather that has kept people out of the streets ; but now it 's cleared off, Rue Royale will be full of strangers, and you '11 be sure to sell one to-day." " Oh, I hope so, Philip, for pauv' papa's sake," replied the girl, as she gave her last crumb of bread to the dog; "he has n't any money, and he 's so unhappy when he has n't any money." Then she covered her face with her hands and began to cry silently.