The Californian, Band 1A. Roman, 1880 |
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... feet between two girls who held her up ; little children like gaudy butterflies in green and gold , purple and scarlet , crimson and white , boys in gilt - fringed caps , girls with hair gummed into spread sails , and decked like their ...
... feet between two girls who held her up ; little children like gaudy butterflies in green and gold , purple and scarlet , crimson and white , boys in gilt - fringed caps , girls with hair gummed into spread sails , and decked like their ...
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... nothing here ! " Had he gone mad or had I ? " Don't you see her ? " I gasped , hardly able to get on my feet , for a sinking at my heart seemed to root me to my chair . " You can find him . You must hunt for 12 THE CALIFORNIAN .
... nothing here ! " Had he gone mad or had I ? " Don't you see her ? " I gasped , hardly able to get on my feet , for a sinking at my heart seemed to root me to my chair . " You can find him . You must hunt for 12 THE CALIFORNIAN .
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... feet beyond where he quit , and extract twenty thousand dollars from the blue gravel of the auriferous river - bed . He prospected for quartz , and discovered a lead , that , notwithstanding his most energetic He | efforts , failed to ...
... feet beyond where he quit , and extract twenty thousand dollars from the blue gravel of the auriferous river - bed . He prospected for quartz , and discovered a lead , that , notwithstanding his most energetic He | efforts , failed to ...
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... feet and turned their eager faces to the northward - another company recruited for the grand army already on the march to the gold fields of Frazer River . " S'pose I pack up an ' go , too , " he muttered , a slight raising of the ...
... feet and turned their eager faces to the northward - another company recruited for the grand army already on the march to the gold fields of Frazer River . " S'pose I pack up an ' go , too , " he muttered , a slight raising of the ...
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... feet along the corri- dor , and a key was turned in the lock of his cell door . " Stand back , boys . If he resists , I'll stand the brunt , and you can strike him down when he comes out . " The words were uttered in a brutal tone , and ...
... feet along the corri- dor , and a key was turned in the lock of his cell door . " Stand back , boys . If he resists , I'll stand the brunt , and you can strike him down when he comes out . " The words were uttered in a brutal tone , and ...
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Ada Cavendish ain't Alviny American arms asked beautiful better Bill Parsons Blethers boys California called camp Chaparral Chinese civilization cloud forces Colonel Holten color dance dark dead door Estevanico eyes face father feel feet fire flowers girl give gold ground hand head heart hills horse hundred Indians knew lady land laugh light live Loly look Marcos de Niza Maydole ment Mexico miles mind Miss morning mother Mount Shasta mountain nature Nessie never night Norman obsidian passed Plattdeutsch present river Roger Peterson San Francisco seemed side smile South spirit stood strange sweet Sylvia tell Theodora thing thought thousand tion town trees turned Vera Cruz voice walked wild wind woman women word young
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Seite 268 - His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal 100 Of his chamber in the east. Meanwhile, welcome joy and feast, Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
Seite 275 - ... rejects the lore Of nicely-calculated less or more ; So deemed the man who fashioned for the sense These lofty pillars, spread that branching roof Self-poised, and scooped into ten thousand cells, Where light and shade repose, where music dwells Lingering — and wandering on as loth to die; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality.
Seite 277 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Seite 167 - And mantled with its beauty ; and the walls That close the universe with crystal in Are eloquent with voices that proclaim The unseen glories of immensity In harmonies too perfect and too high For aught but beings of celestial...
Seite 136 - Rome ! my country ! city of the soul ! The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance ? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye. ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within...
Seite 154 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Seite 44 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food, For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Seite 150 - The rough, dark-skirted wilderness; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air; the flower Glimmering at my feet; the line Of the...
Seite 365 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Seite 336 - A gigantic beauty of a stallion, fresh and responsive to my caresses, Head high in the forehead, wide between the ears, Limbs glossy and supple, tail dusting the ground, Eyes full of sparkling wickedness, ears finely cut, flexibly moving.