Around the World, Book 4Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett & comapny, 1908 - Geography |
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Page 16 - their bold outlines on the evening sky; but, sometimes, when the rest of the landscape is cloudless, they will gather a hood of gray vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Page 200 - to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country-folk to be up and to arm.
Page 16 - They are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and lording it over the surrounding
Page 16 - vapors about their summits, which, in the last rays of the setting sun, will glow and light up like a crown of glory.
Page 200 - He said to his friend: If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Beady to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country-folk to be up and to arm.
Page 16 - When the weather is fair and settled, they are clothed in blue and purple, and
Page 201 - unless fired upon, but If they mean to have a war, let It begin here.
Page 207 - perch their baited lines flung; There the boy shaped his arrows, and there the shy maid Wove her many-hued baskets and bright wampum braid.
Page 15 - made up of gable-ends, and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat.
Page 137 - between the Rockies and the Dakota wheat-fields might be spoken of as one gigantic, unbroken pasture, where cowboys and branding irons take the place of fences.