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requently comprehend. Our two poor shipmates who had been wounded died, I hope, before we left the schooner. At all events, the pirates thr .
l, securing to her, in case of his decease, all her own goods and moneys, as well as all that he had himself acquired before marriage. "Whi .
sake)--and required the mob to establish their claims, they were overpowered; the ruffians seized the ballot-boxes, and in the end there we .
ious troopers of Charles I., the "bravos of Alsatia and the pages of Whitehall," throws a ghastly light upon the horrors of civil war:-- "A .
will you do, Miss Powle?--will you be afraid to find your way home alone?" "I will stay here till you come back." "Will you? But I may be g .
elsewhere and nearer home. "I used not many words to her," he continues, "but I felt a Divine Power went along with the words, and fixed t .
her bowie- knife graceful at her side, like the huntress Diana with her silver bow, --oh it would be refreshing and recruiting to an exhaus .
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rescued me, I had perished; for I was as one appointed to death and destruction, and there was none to deliver me." "It is in my heart to c .
n I thought of what I had been on board the _Juno_, and what I now was, I shrunk from making the comparison. But I was to obtain relief in .
keels--each from about twenty-six to nearly thirty feet in length. Although she had provisions enough on board--casks of beef, and pork, an .
es, who contrived to retain all the great offices of the state, that everything interesting in the history of Republican Rome is identified .
nt to pay the expenses. Thus I was left, with the exception of a suit of somewhat ragged clothes on my back, as naked and poor as when I ca .
mselves and their headquarters accordingly." The gloom of the afternoon was already gathering over the old tower of the priory church. The .
w, endeavouring to keep calm. The Squire got up out of his chair. He had no calmness to keep, and he spoke loud. "Have you taught your sist .
re so liberally bestowing on us. We had our guns ready in time to give our friend the brig a good dose, but what mischief we inflicted we c standard size windows desktop icon rank from one with her mother. She bid nobody good-bye, for she could not tell anybody that she was going. London streets looked very gloom .
have much to go through before you are out of the fire." I do not remember much more about the feast. The negroes ate, and drank, and laug .
et; but the vessel being in good trim, answered her helm, and kept before the wind. Away! away we flew! surrounded with sheets of hissing f .
e than any had done before him." Cromwell, if he heard of his diatribes against him, appears to have cared little for them. Lords Warwick a .
" And as Putnam's record had long since proved that he always led, and asked no man to approach nearer the foe than he himself was willing .