Rachel Craig: A Novel, Connected with the Valley of Wyoming

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R. Baur & son, 1888 - 308 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 249 - The reverend champion stood. At his control Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul ; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And his last faltering accents whispered praise.
Pàgina 193 - Gloster stumbled; and, in falling, Struck me, that thought to stay him, over-board, Into the tumbling billows of the main. O Lord! methought, what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears What sights of ugly death within mine eyes.
Pàgina 196 - ... the cruelty of arm-chair critGen. Enoch Poor ics and disparagers ignorant of the situation — and note that Sullivan, unappalled at the poor equipment and commissariat and the absence of promised reinforcements, gave the order to advance at 1 pm July 31, on the firing of a signal gun. With banners flying, drums beating, fifes screaming and Colonel Proctor's regimental band playing a lively air — probably the "White Cockade...
Pàgina 41 - WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO, MY PRETTY MAID?" " WHERE are you going to, my pretty maid ? " " I'm going a milking, sir,
Pàgina 284 - That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. Under a tuft of shade that on a green Stood whispering soft, by a fresh fountain side They sat them down...
Pàgina 34 - The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me : thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.
Pàgina 271 - Dearing had returned from an excursion to the junction of the North and West branches of the Susquehanna. It was concluded in family council that the structure Rachel had put up in her single days was insufficient.
Pàgina 133 - Rachel uttered a wild exclamation and rushed to him. She threw her arms about his neck and showered kisses on his cheeks and lips.

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