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... rode and mas- tered many unbroken thoroughbred colts , and it is possible that one of them burst a blood - vessel in the process and died , and that the boy promptly told his mother of the accident . But this is the utmost credit which ...
... rode and mas- tered many unbroken thoroughbred colts , and it is possible that one of them burst a blood - vessel in the process and died , and that the boy promptly told his mother of the accident . But this is the utmost credit which ...
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... rode up and down the field , carrying orders and striving to rally " the das- tards , " as he afterwards called the regular troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve the guns , although he aimed and ...
... rode up and down the field , carrying orders and striving to rally " the das- tards , " as he afterwards called the regular troops . He endeavored to bring up the artillery , but the men would not serve the guns , although he aimed and ...
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... rode on to meet Dunbar , and rallying the fugitives enabled the wretched remnants to take up their march for the settle- ments . He it was who laid Braddock in the grave four days after the defeat , and read over the dead the solemn ...
... rode on to meet Dunbar , and rallying the fugitives enabled the wretched remnants to take up their march for the settle- ments . He it was who laid Braddock in the grave four days after the defeat , and read over the dead the solemn ...
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... rode away through the dark woods . First came the colonel , mounted of course on the finest of animals , for he loved and understood horses from the time when he rode bareback in the pasture to those later days when he acted as judge at ...
... rode away through the dark woods . First came the colonel , mounted of course on the finest of animals , for he loved and understood horses from the time when he rode bareback in the pasture to those later days when he acted as judge at ...
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... rode his two aides , likewise in buff and blue , and behind came his servants , dressed in the Washington colors of white and scarlet and wearing hats laced with silver . Thus accoutred , they all rode on together to the North . The ...
... rode his two aides , likewise in buff and blue , and behind came his servants , dressed in the Washington colors of white and scarlet and wearing hats laced with silver . Thus accoutred , they all rode on together to the North . The ...
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