Memoir of Wm. P. Hawes. To the memory of Cypress. Fire Island-Ana; or a week at the Fire Islands. Controversy concerning the Genera, &c. of Quail and Partridge. Bear. Collineomania. Legends of Long IslandGould, Banks & Company, 1842 - American poetry |
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... shot , I honor him ; and as he can pull a discreet oar , foretell , to a certainty , where the wind is going to be on the morrow , and mark down 66 a crippled bird more truly than any man in 18 FIRE ISLAND ANA ; OR ,
... shot , I honor him ; and as he can pull a discreet oar , foretell , to a certainty , where the wind is going to be on the morrow , and mark down 66 a crippled bird more truly than any man in 18 FIRE ISLAND ANA ; OR ,
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... pull of a twelve foot shark . I let it run about fifty yards , and then reeled up . He appeared not at all alarmed , and I could scarcely feel him bear upon my fine hair line . He followed the pull gently , and unresisting , came up to ...
... pull of a twelve foot shark . I let it run about fifty yards , and then reeled up . He appeared not at all alarmed , and I could scarcely feel him bear upon my fine hair line . He followed the pull gently , and unresisting , came up to ...
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... pull of my coat , and swim ashore , put the helm hard down , and away bore the sloop on the other tack . " Heartless villain ! " — I shrieked out , in the torture of my disappointment ; " may God reward your inhumanity . " The crew ...
... pull of my coat , and swim ashore , put the helm hard down , and away bore the sloop on the other tack . " Heartless villain ! " — I shrieked out , in the torture of my disappointment ; " may God reward your inhumanity . " The crew ...
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... pulling at the skirts of my fustian coat , which hung dipping into the water . I leaned forward hastily , and en- deavored to extricate myself from the dangerous grasp , but the monster's teeth were too firmly set , and his immense ...
... pulling at the skirts of my fustian coat , which hung dipping into the water . I leaned forward hastily , and en- deavored to extricate myself from the dangerous grasp , but the monster's teeth were too firmly set , and his immense ...
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... pull , and then jump and splash thro ' th ' water to pick up his game , but he said nothen . Well , the merm'n , —as it turned out to be , -got to th ' stool , and he seemed most won'rf'll s'prized th ' birds didn't get up and fly , and ...
... pull , and then jump and splash thro ' th ' water to pick up his game , but he said nothen . Well , the merm'n , —as it turned out to be , -got to th ' stool , and he seemed most won'rf'll s'prized th ' birds didn't get up and fly , and ...
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Page 69 - Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — O God ! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer, — married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
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Page 40 - I could get no reply, nor notice of my request. I entreated them, for the love of heaven, to take me off; and I promised, I know not what rewards, that were entirely beyond my power of bestowal. But the brutal wretch of a captain, muttering something to the effect of ' that he hadn't time to stop...
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Page 49 - I'd liked to've skipped that ere. Why, sir, I've heerd different accounts as to that. Uncle Obe Verity told me he reckoned .the captin cut off one of the bear's paws, when he lay stretched out asleep, one day, with his jack-knife, and sucked that for fodder, and they say there's a smart deal o' nourishment in a white bear's foot.
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