The Rainbow Chasers: A Story of the PlainsLittle, Brown,, 1904 - 393 sider |
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The Rainbow Chasers: A Story of the Plains (Classic Reprint) John H. Whitson Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2017 |
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ain't Arkansas baby began beheld blizzard boom bronchos carriage cattle cayuse Charlie Ross colonel cowboys dark Dick Brewster Dick's door dugout Elinor eyes face father feeling feller felt fire flushed frum girl goin Golden City grangers grass hair hand Hank Wilson head heard heart horses hyar Jackson Blake Jed Anderson Jim Prethro Joe Barton Judge Spencer Kansas kill knew land office laughed looked Lost Charlie Martin Parker mebby Melchor never night Old Shake Plains City Pony Brown prairie dog Rainbow Chasers reckon round Sam Bass seemed smile snow squaw squaw-man stared stood stopped storm stove street swung talk tell thet things thought took town turned uster voice wagon walked wall wild wind window woman woods words yere young
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Side 328 - tis slander ; Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.
Side 301 - Other brunts I also look for ; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
Side 327 - It is a calumny on men to say that they are roused to heroic action by ease, hope of pleasure, recompense, — sugar- plums of any kind, in this world or the next! In the meanest mortal there lies something nobler. The poor swearing soldier, hired to be shot, has his ' honour of a soldier,' different from drill-regulations and the shilling a day.
Side 286 - Go, hang yourselves all ! you are idle, shallow things : I am not of your element : you shall know more hereafter. [Exit. Sir To. Is't possible ? Fab. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Side 352 - I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee : then whose shall these things be which thou hast provided ? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Side 327 - Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.