George Washington, Band 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1917 |
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... brilliant European discipline , both in camp and on the march . He had studied and absorbed it all , talking with veterans and hearing from them many things that he could have ac- quired nowhere else . Once more had he been taught 84 ...
... brilliant European discipline , both in camp and on the march . He had studied and absorbed it all , talking with veterans and hearing from them many things that he could have ac- quired nowhere else . Once more had he been taught 84 ...
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... brilliant enough as they 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 ...
... brilliant enough as they 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 ...
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... brilliant in color and manly in form , riding gayly on from one little colo- nial town to another , feasting , dancing , courting , and making merry . For him the myrtle and ivy were entwined with the laurel , and fame was sweetened by ...
... brilliant in color and manly in form , riding gayly on from one little colo- nial town to another , feasting , dancing , courting , and making merry . For him the myrtle and ivy were entwined with the laurel , and fame was sweetened by ...
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... brilliant wedding party which assembled on that winter day in the little church near the White House . There were gathered Francis Fauquier , the gay , free - thinking , high - living governor , gor- geous in scarlet and gold ; British ...
... brilliant wedding party which assembled on that winter day in the little church near the White House . There were gathered Francis Fauquier , the gay , free - thinking , high - living governor , gor- geous in scarlet and gold ; British ...
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... brilliant , whimsical , and unbalanced . There also came Horatio Gates , likewise British , and disap- pointed with his prospects at home ; less adventur- ous than Lee , but also less brilliant , and not much more valuable . Thus the ...
... brilliant , whimsical , and unbalanced . There also came Horatio Gates , likewise British , and disap- pointed with his prospects at home ; less adventur- ous than Lee , but also less brilliant , and not much more valuable . Thus the ...
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