Francis Parkman's The Oregon TrailLongmans, Green, and Company, 1910 - 363 páginas |
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... woods through which the miser- able road conducted us were lighted by the bright sun- shine and enlivened by a multitude of birds . We over- took on the way our late fellow - travellers , the Kansas Indians , who , adorned with all ...
... woods through which the miser- able road conducted us were lighted by the bright sun- shine and enlivened by a multitude of birds . We over- took on the way our late fellow - travellers , the Kansas Indians , who , adorned with all ...
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... woods , where he pitched his tent , and was sipping a comfortable cup of coffee while the Captain galloped for miles beyond through the rain to look for him . At length the storm cleared away , and the sharp - eyed trapper succeeded in ...
... woods , where he pitched his tent , and was sipping a comfortable cup of coffee while the Captain galloped for miles beyond through the rain to look for him . At length the storm cleared away , and the sharp - eyed trapper succeeded in ...
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... woods , till at length , issuing forth into the broad light , we left behind us the farthest outskirts of that great forest that once spread unbroken from the western plains to the shore of the Atlantic . Looking over an intervening ...
... woods , till at length , issuing forth into the broad light , we left behind us the farthest outskirts of that great forest that once spread unbroken from the western plains to the shore of the Atlantic . Looking over an intervening ...
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... woods and bushes , and fairly upon the broad prairie . Now and then a Shawanoe passed us , riding his little shaggy pony at a ' lope ' ; his calico shirt , his gaudy sash , and the gay handkerchief bound around his snaky hair ...
... woods and bushes , and fairly upon the broad prairie . Now and then a Shawanoe passed us , riding his little shaggy pony at a ' lope ' ; his calico shirt , his gaudy sash , and the gay handkerchief bound around his snaky hair ...
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... rising from a cluster of groves and woods on the left ; and riding up through a long lane , amid a profusion of wild roses and early spring flowers , we found } the log - church and school - houses belonging 16 THE OREGON TRAIL.
... rising from a cluster of groves and woods on the left ; and riding up through a long lane , amid a profusion of wild roses and early spring flowers , we found } the log - church and school - houses belonging 16 THE OREGON TRAIL.
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Términos y frases comunes
American Fur Company animals antelope approached Arapahoes band of horses bank began Bent's Fort Black Hills broken buffalo buffalo-robes bull bushes camp Captain close crowd Dahcotah dark Delorier distance Edited emigrants encamped enemy eyes face farther fire followed foot Fort Laramie Fort Leavenworth forward galloped grass grizzly bear ground half hand head Henry Chatillon horses hour hunter Indians Jean Gras journey killed length lodge looked meadow meat ment miles Missouri morning mountains mounted mule night Ogillallah Oregon Trail Parkman party passed Pawnees pipe plain Platte prairie ravine Raymond reached rest Reynal riding rifle river rocks Rocky Rocky Mountains rode rose saddle Santa Fé scene seated seemed Shaw side sight smoke soon squaw stood stream tall tent Tête Rouge tion traders trappers trees turned village wagons warriors whole wild wolves woods young
Pasajes populares
Página 34 - A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chemist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 144 - That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 271 - Every line save one of this description was more than verified here. There were no 'dwellings of the mountaineer' among these heights. Fierce savages, restlessly wandering through summer and winter, alone invade them. 'Their hand is against every man, and every man's hand against them.
Página 253 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Página 12 - Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, And Life, that bloated Ease can never hope to share.
Página 106 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 9 - ... an insane hope of a better condition in life, or a desire of shaking off restraints of law and society, or mere restlessness, certain it is, that multitudes bitterly repent the journey, and, after they have reached the land of promise, are happy enough to escape from it.
Página 283 - Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Página 214 - Oh, who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danced in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense...
Página vi - He told the red man's story ; far and wide He searched the unwritten records of his race ; He sat a listener at the Sachem's side, He tracked the hunter through his wildwood chase. High o'er his head the soaring eagle screamed; The wolf's long howl rang nightly ; through the vale Tramped the lone bear ; the panther's eyeballs gleamed ; The bison's gallop thundered on the gale.