The Novelist: a collection of the standard novels, Volumes 2-31839 |
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... horse , in swift motion , accompanied with that tinkling sound ment , that he was universally known by the name of " laughing Sam : he was a horse - drover , who , from the frequency of his expeditions , was well known in the south ...
... horse , in swift motion , accompanied with that tinkling sound ment , that he was universally known by the name of " laughing Sam : he was a horse - drover , who , from the frequency of his expeditions , was well known in the south ...
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... horse again , I'll hang you up for a scarecrow . ' " He , he , he - I promise your honour if Bill Hook ever drives a nail amiss again , you shall hang him as high as Haman ; but the last time your horse scared and 99 The young officer ...
... horse again , I'll hang you up for a scarecrow . ' " He , he , he - I promise your honour if Bill Hook ever drives a nail amiss again , you shall hang him as high as Haman ; but the last time your horse scared and 99 The young officer ...
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... horses , in a tone of authority which commanded ready obedience . Smith entered about the same time from the stable , leading a fine bay horse , and betraying , by his frequent glances up the northern road , that he was still in ...
... horses , in a tone of authority which commanded ready obedience . Smith entered about the same time from the stable , leading a fine bay horse , and betraying , by his frequent glances up the northern road , that he was still in ...
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... horse be brought out ; I have concluded to act as his guide to this cele- brated fragrant nectar ' of his , as I believe I recollect the place that he alludes to , although the name has suffered somewhat in passing through his hands ...
... horse be brought out ; I have concluded to act as his guide to this cele- brated fragrant nectar ' of his , as I believe I recollect the place that he alludes to , although the name has suffered somewhat in passing through his hands ...
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... horse had cast himself over his halter , and was so ame as to be unfit for service . Laughing Sam appeared more deeply affected by this intelligence , than by any thing which had occurred ; but the cornet very coolly turned to a tall ...
... horse had cast himself over his halter , and was so ame as to be unfit for service . Laughing Sam appeared more deeply affected by this intelligence , than by any thing which had occurred ; but the cornet very coolly turned to a tall ...
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Page 163 - Such things frequently happen," returned Louisa. " Let us follow the sounds ; it may be a wanderer starving on the hill.
Page 164 - So rapid and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the forest, that its active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff, which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
Page 163 - Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant destruction. " Let us fly !" exclaimed Elizabeth, grasping the arm of Louisa, whose form yielded like melting snow, and sunk lifeless to the earth.
Page 163 - ... in his air that ill accorded with the character of a protector. But when, aroused by this cry from Louisa, Miss Temple turned, she saw the dog with his eyes keenly set on some distant object, his head bent near the ground, and his hair actually rising on his body, through fright or anger.
Page 163 - Louisa, tearing from the person of her friend, with an instinctive readiness, such parts of her dress as might obstruct her respiration, and encouraging their only safeguard, the dog, at the same time, by the sounds of her voice. " Courage, Brave ! " she cried — her own tones beginning to tremble — " courage, courage, good Brave...
Page 164 - Miss Temple did not, or could not move. Her hands were clasped in the attitude of prayer, but her eyes were still drawn to her terrible enemy— her cheeks were blanched to the whiteness of marble, and her lips were slightly separated with horror. The moment seemed now to have arrived for the fatal termination, and the beautiful figure of Elizabeth was bowing meekly to the stroke, when a rustling of leaves from behind seemed rather to mock the organs, than to meet her ears.
Page 164 - ... something in the front of the image of the Maker that daunts the hearts of the inferior beings of His creation; and it would seem that some such power, in the present instance, suspended the threatened blow. The eyes of the monster and the kneeling maiden met, for an instant, when the former stooped to examine her fallen foe ; next to scent her luckless cub. From the latter examination it turned, however, with its eyes apparently emitting flashes of fire, its tail lashing its sides furiously,...
Page 164 - This ignorant but vicious creature approached near to the dog, imitating the actions and sounds of its parent, but exhibiting a strange mixture of the playfulness of a kitten with the ferocity of its race. Standing on its hind legs, it would rend the bark of a tree with its...
Page 176 - I've eaten and drunk, the first of Heaven's gifts, and the other of the pure springs, for the half of a hundred years, and to mourn the ashes under my feet, as a man would weep and mourn for the children of his body.
Page 164 - Elizabeth saw, as Brave fastened his teeth in the side of his enemy, that the collar of brass around...