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Abraham Harwood afore afraid agin aint arms asleep awake awful Bald Eagle Ball Eagle bear beautiful believe blockhead blood Bob Carter body brave breath brigadier bright eyes Carter child dare Deacon dead dear dear boy death door earth Edith Cummin eyes face father feet fell feller fire followed forehead guess hair half hand head hear heard heart heavy hope hour hush Jonathan Peters Jotham Jotty knew laugh leaned look Lord loud Louisbourg Lucy matter Mohawks mouth never night noise nothin once pale Panther perhaps plain dealing poor preacher quiet shadow shook sort speak spoke stood strange stranger sure talk tears tell temper thing thought trees trembled turned uncle voice Walter Harwood Watty whispered whole Winslow woman wood word Yankee young young savage
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Page 224 - about you — a lie, all over; a lie, from the crown of his head, even to the sole of his foot." " I heard a shot, sir — as you came in, sir — I —I believe, sir," said Edith—very timidly; without lifting her eyes, or speaking above a whisper. " Where is Walter Harwood ?" — " Up stars." -•- " Stairs, you mean; are you sure, — quite sure ?" — " O yes ?" — "I heerd Panther jess now
Page 29 - of those ; especially if they were grown up, who, led astray by her manner, and size, had mistaken her for a child. A word, or a laugh, was enough; just when some stranger, perhaps, who had been looking at her absurd gambols, with
Page 358 - its way, through a number of old forgotten passages, to the sea; subterranean passages, which had been wrought; or paths, which had been ploughed up, in the early ages of the world, by the spring freshets. In America—North America — these inundations are frequent. The rivers of New England rarely fail to overflow the " intervale,
Page 412 - I reckon. — But never you mind — " pettishly — " I'll not be cotch again, by your tricks." " Cotch ! — I reckon ! — clear nigger that, I guess. Might as well say fotch, or holp — or tote. — " " Clear nigger ! " — half sobbing — half smiling — " clear nigger's better 'an clear Yankee — any day." " Edith!"—" Watty! " — "We are two fools.
Page 54 - too, whenever a young she-yankee is . " laying out" for a husband, she gives what is there called a " QUILTING FROLICK." The women gather about her ; and, for a cup of tea a piece, or some such matter, " turn out" a handsome bed-quilt for her, sometimes in a single
Page 28 - did;' and would go without her dinner any time, . for a good long race with her cousin Watty's
Page 213 - he was pretty sure to encounter a pair or two of eyes; and hear disagreeable noises, for which he was not wholly prepared, in the dead solitude, which he had chosen, as it were, in derision of the terrible stories that men told of it. The eyes of a she-bear — a fox — or a wild
Page 134 - intense anxiety — and gave it up to the preacher, whose hands, while he read it, shook : — The people were breathless. His countenance fell:—They saw it; and were afraid. It was a printed circular, from the " Brotherhood of Safety;" informing all the ministers of the land, after a short preamble, that a petition from the colonies — " their last petition" — had been treated," at home,
Page 97 - dancing, painting, or embroidery. They should be able to breed men—grown men — for the harness, or the plough ; the field of battle, or the field of grass." Edith leaned forward; her eyes flashed fire. " I would'nt have them suckle nasty animals for the ball-room, counter, and
Page 76 - preserved plums; there was a fine goose; here, was a pumpkin pie, nearly three feet in length, baked in a milk pan; there, a quantity of long, short, and round sauce, or " sarse," ie carrots, turnips, and potatoes: here, were dough nuts, a kind of sweet cake fried in lard; honey comb, new butter, cheese, rye and Indian bread