The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 5Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1835 |
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... land of Death , and Silence . We gaze around , for a moment , from the point where we stand ; and as the events of backward eras come thronging to our minds , the griefs or the raptures that have been commended to us in the annual span ...
... land of Death , and Silence . We gaze around , for a moment , from the point where we stand ; and as the events of backward eras come thronging to our minds , the griefs or the raptures that have been commended to us in the annual span ...
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... land is covered with " -Queen lilies , the painted populace , Who dwell in fields , and lead ambrosial lives ; ' Every mouldering leaf and spear of grass , is the nidus and pabulum of myriad forms of animalcule existence . The air is ...
... land is covered with " -Queen lilies , the painted populace , Who dwell in fields , and lead ambrosial lives ; ' Every mouldering leaf and spear of grass , is the nidus and pabulum of myriad forms of animalcule existence . The air is ...
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... land . 6 Seymour , however , was as wide - awake as I , and as I rose to strike out the second time , his running - bowline came over my head , caught me round the body , and I was hauled on board before I knew what was the matter ...
... land . 6 Seymour , however , was as wide - awake as I , and as I rose to strike out the second time , his running - bowline came over my head , caught me round the body , and I was hauled on board before I knew what was the matter ...
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... land in the Gulf of Guinea . Crowding all sail , we rapidly approached it , and were within five or six miles , when a long , low , black , suspicious- looking schooner , shot out from behind a small island , a short distance ahead ...
... land in the Gulf of Guinea . Crowding all sail , we rapidly approached it , and were within five or six miles , when a long , low , black , suspicious- looking schooner , shot out from behind a small island , a short distance ahead ...
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... land , we tacked again , and although the breeze was a stiff one , set every inch of canvass and stood in for the shore . The schooner continued her course , and standing on opposite tacks , we rapidly neared each other . Our ports were ...
... land , we tacked again , and although the breeze was a stiff one , set every inch of canvass and stood in for the shore . The schooner continued her course , and standing on opposite tacks , we rapidly neared each other . Our ports were ...
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