Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 24Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells Harper's Magazine Company, 1862 - American literature Important American periodical dating back to 1850. |
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... turned toward the fire where most of the party had been sitting , and where the smoke somewhat obscured their retreat - not one being left except the old cook - and observed in the most courteous manner- " Gentlemen , I beg you'll ...
... turned toward the fire where most of the party had been sitting , and where the smoke somewhat obscured their retreat - not one being left except the old cook - and observed in the most courteous manner- " Gentlemen , I beg you'll ...
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... turned , which lowers the right end of the lever slightly , just enough to allow the graver to cut another shaving , and the stub to touch the cast a very little further from the centre . Thus the graver cuts a very little at a time ...
... turned , which lowers the right end of the lever slightly , just enough to allow the graver to cut another shaving , and the stub to touch the cast a very little further from the centre . Thus the graver cuts a very little at a time ...
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... turned back toward the last drinking - place . They had proceeded but a short distance when they were startled by an appalling sight . The dry grass all around them was on fire . In front was a vast prairie , dotted over with thorn ...
... turned back toward the last drinking - place . They had proceeded but a short distance when they were startled by an appalling sight . The dry grass all around them was on fire . In front was a vast prairie , dotted over with thorn ...
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... turned right about and made a furious charge . side , like a line of infantry . He estimated their He threw himself flat on the ground , sheltered numbers at from 100 to 150. The moon was by an insignificant bush . Paterfamilias stop ...
... turned right about and made a furious charge . side , like a line of infantry . He estimated their He threw himself flat on the ground , sheltered numbers at from 100 to 150. The moon was by an insignificant bush . Paterfamilias stop ...
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... turned and fired , this time with fa- tal aim . The beast fell dead on the spot . Look- ing around , the hunter saw his attendants com- ing toward him in evident distress . " Kozengo is dead , " said one ; " he is killed by the rhinoce ...
... turned and fired , this time with fa- tal aim . The beast fell dead on the spot . Look- ing around , the hunter saw his attendants com- ing toward him in evident distress . " Kozengo is dead , " said one ; " he is killed by the rhinoce ...
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Page 220 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 349 - I recollect that when a stripling, my first exploit in squirrelshooting was in a grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun as it broke the Sabbath stillness around, and was prolonged and reverberated by the angry echoes.
Page 360 - God ; his loins girt about with truth ; having on the breast-plate of righteousness, the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit.
Page 221 - Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, And HE bringeth them out of their distresses. HE maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.
Page 173 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Page 140 - What a sublime thought, that no purge can now be taken between the Weser and the Garonne; that the bustling pestle is still, the canorous mortar mute, and the bowels of mankind locked up for fourteen degrees of latitude! When, I should be curious to know, were all the powers of crudity and flatulence fully explained to his Majesty's ministers? At what period was this great plan of conquest and constipation fully developed? In whose mind was the idea of destroying the pride and the plasters of France...
Page 130 - Oregon from 1853, inclusive, to 1865, "all of which I saw and a part of which I was.
Page 406 - For soldiers to complain: Should next campaign Send us to Him who made us, boys, We're free from pain...
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Page 372 - I consider this insurrection as the first formidable fruit of the Democratic Societies, brought forth, I believe, too prematurely for their own views, which may contribute to the annihilation of them. That these societies were instituted by the artful .and designing members (many of their body I have no doubt mean well, but know little of the real plan,) primarily to sow...