Tales and Sketches: Such as They are, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1834 |
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... became one himself , and fled into this howling wilderness with them , to enjoy freedom of conscience . Most fully did he believe in witchcraft , as , whenever the mysteries of the cellar were referred to , he shook his MERCY DISBOROUGH .
... became one himself , and fled into this howling wilderness with them , to enjoy freedom of conscience . Most fully did he believe in witchcraft , as , whenever the mysteries of the cellar were referred to , he shook his MERCY DISBOROUGH .
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... became every day more frequent and alarming . Many people were thrown into the most excruciating torments , mental and physical . Some became dumb ; others raved in heathen tongues ; some were torn and racked by violence , pricked with ...
... became every day more frequent and alarming . Many people were thrown into the most excruciating torments , mental and physical . Some became dumb ; others raved in heathen tongues ; some were torn and racked by violence , pricked with ...
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... became passing eloquent before he reached the sixteenth head of his tenth subdivision . The peroration was thrilling and sublime . Every eye was suffused , and every heart melted . And when the minister made the awful vow , in the name ...
... became passing eloquent before he reached the sixteenth head of his tenth subdivision . The peroration was thrilling and sublime . Every eye was suffused , and every heart melted . And when the minister made the awful vow , in the name ...
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... became necessary to commence , and vigorously prosecute the proposed investigations of the extraordinary facts daily transpiring . The testimony was all committed to writing ; but time and space would both fail us , were we to MERCY ...
... became necessary to commence , and vigorously prosecute the proposed investigations of the extraordinary facts daily transpiring . The testimony was all committed to writing ; but time and space would both fail us , were we to MERCY ...
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... became altogether unintelligible to the by - standers , and was said by one who had sailed to the Niew Neidtherlandts strongly to resemble that of the Dutch - a people who had lately estab- lished themselves just below Hartford , to the ...
... became altogether unintelligible to the by - standers , and was said by one who had sailed to the Niew Neidtherlandts strongly to resemble that of the Dutch - a people who had lately estab- lished themselves just below Hartford , to the ...
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afflicted afterwards agony Ahitub appeared arms Azazel beautiful began blood body bosom Brandt bright Buxton canoe cast Cherry Valley clouds cold commenced council-fire countenance dance dark daughter Deacon Goodspeed death deep demons desolate devil distance earth exclaimed eyes familiar spirit father fear fire forest Fort William Henry Fowler friends gloom Goodwife Goody Clawson hands head heard heart heaven horse hour Indians instant Iroquois Johnson lake light look Lord Magdalen Islands ment Menunkatuck Mercy Disborough miles mind mingled morning mother mountains never New-York night Onondaga Otsego lake Paltz passed phynx portmanteau Pow-wow prisoner Puritans Quebec Quinnipiack ranger river rude sachem savage scene seemed seen settlement shadow shore side silent soon soul spirits spot stood strange stranger sufferings Thorndyke thou thought Thurensera Tinman tion trees valley Vandrick village warriors waters whole wild wilderness wind witchcraft witches young
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Página 241 - The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen ; man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.
Página 241 - I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream,— past the wit of man to say what dream it was. Man is but an ass, if he go about to expound this dream.
Página 73 - He was a man Who stole the livery of the court of heaven, To serve the devil in...
Página 141 - The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes :— How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! but with the breath which fills...
Página 199 - The brows of men by the despairing light Wore an unearthly aspect, as by fits The flashes fell upon them ; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their...
Página 31 - Alas! O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?
Página 141 - The foe! They come! They come! " And wild and high the " Cameron's gathering " rose, The war note of Lochicl, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill!
Página 84 - Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart; Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
Página 208 - We now plant a tree, whose top will reach the sun, and its branches spread far abroad, so that it shall be seen afar off; and we shall shelter ourselves under it, and live in peace without molestation.
Página 175 - Came tame and tremulous; and vipers crawled And twined themselves among the multitude, Hissing, but stingless — they were slain for food: And war, which for a moment was no more, Did glut himself again — a meal was bought With blood, and each sate sullenly apart, , Gorging himself in gloom : no love...