The Battle CryGrosset & Dunlap, 1914 - 356 páginas |
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... hill people had only a vague conception . She was an outlander to be , at first glance , viewed with the suspicion that resents the coming of innovation to a land which has long stood unaltered and unalterable . But who was she and why ...
... hill people had only a vague conception . She was an outlander to be , at first glance , viewed with the suspicion that resents the coming of innovation to a land which has long stood unaltered and unalterable . But who was she and why ...
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... hills locked in its grip could exist in her century had always seemed to her incredible . Now the sun was sinking ... hills she had come to change ; hills fixed and invincible ; hills that had halted and deflected the restless flow of ...
... hills locked in its grip could exist in her century had always seemed to her incredible . Now the sun was sinking ... hills she had come to change ; hills fixed and invincible ; hills that had halted and deflected the restless flow of ...
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... hills had made her heart - sick with their stolid and animal - like coarseness . Now she saw a slender figure in which the lines were yet transitory between the straightness of childhood and the budding curves of womanhood . She saw a ...
... hills had made her heart - sick with their stolid and animal - like coarseness . Now she saw a slender figure in which the lines were yet transitory between the straightness of childhood and the budding curves of womanhood . She saw a ...
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... hills as this that Juanita Holland was to bring the new teachings . But even as she smiled , the child , for she seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen , surrendered to her shyness and thrusting the taper into her mother's hand , shrunk ...
... hills as this that Juanita Holland was to bring the new teachings . But even as she smiled , the child , for she seemed to be only fifteen or sixteen , surrendered to her shyness and thrusting the taper into her mother's hand , shrunk ...
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... hills , of never ending and grim sus- pense ; of being constantly watched and followed by unseen eyes . At length from the road came loud shouts of drunken laughter broken by the evident remonstrances of a com- panion who sought to ...
... hills , of never ending and grim sus- pense ; of being constantly watched and followed by unseen eyes . At length from the road came loud shouts of drunken laughter broken by the evident remonstrances of a com- panion who sought to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
acrost after-note Anse Havey's Anse Talbott arms asked Bad Anse Havey Bluegrass breath broke cabin Cumberland Mountains dark Dawn door dream enemy ergin eyes face fell feller felt fingers fire Fletch McNash folks Gatling guns gaze girl goin hand Hatfield-McCoy feud heard heart hell hills hit's hyar Jeb McNash Jeb's Jim Fletcher Juanita Holland kill killin kilt knew laughed Lexington lips looked Luke Thixton missionary mountain mountain men murder murder squad never night nodded nothin once paused Peril poplar quietly reckon ye ridge rifle road rode Roger Malcolm rose seemed shadows shook his head shoulders silent slowly smile spoke stood suddenly talk tell ye thar ther thet Thet's things thought told turned voice voice broke wild woman ye'd ye'll ye're ye've yore young Jeb young Milt
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Página 92 - It was morning on hill and stream and tree, And morning in the young knight's heart; Only the castle moodily Rebuffed the gifts of the sunshine free, And gloomed by itself apart; The season brimmed all other things up Full as the rain fills the pitcher-plant's cup.
Página 199 - They do not preach that their God will rouse them a little before the nuts work loose; They do not teach that his pity allows them to leave their work whenever they choose. As in the thronged and the lightened ways, so in the dark and the desert they stand, Wary and watchful all their days, that their brethren's days may be long in the land.
Página 67 - The grey cock crew, the red cock crew, But never came the day: And crooked shapes of Terror crouched, In the corners where we lay: And each evil sprite that walks by night Before us seemed to play.
Página 167 - The little birds sang as if it were The one day of summer in all the year; And the very leaves seemed to sing on the trees; The castle alone in the landscape lay Like an outpost of winter, dull and gray...
Página 298 - But delay was best, For their end was a crime." — Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test, As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view!
Página 298 - The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin : And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is, the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
Página 99 - Take up the White Man's burden In patience to abide, To veil the threat of terror And check the show of pride; By open speech and simple, An hundred times made plain, To seek another's profit And work another's gain.
Página 298 - One ray that broke from the ardent brow, Nor a curl of the lips where the spirit kissed. Be sure that each renewed the vow, No morrow's sun should arise and set And leave them then as it left them now. But next day passed, and next day yet, With still fresh cause to wait one day more Ere each leaped over the parapet.
Página 8 - Then she drew the engagement ring from her finger and held it out to him. A little splinter of light was tossed from one of the facets. " That's the first thing, Roger,
Página 159 - Say, dearie, I thought you was never coming." Gurl whirled so swiftly that he almost knocked her down. Blonde, plenty of make-up, big hat, tight skirt. And a face that he had never seen. "Say, you're jumpy, ain't you?" Gurl said nothing, staring, trying to recognize the face. For a moment they stood looking at each other, then the girl began to get red. "What's the trouble, huh? Something wrong with me?