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Page 673 - One may go a blackberrying and make some rare discovery ; or, while driving his cow to pasture, hear a new song, or make a new observation. Secrets lurk on all sides. There is news in...
Page 49 - The Abbot of Aberbrothok Had placed that Bell on the Inchcape Rock; On a buoy in the storm it floated and swung, And over the waves its warning rung. When the Rock was hid by the surge's swell, The mariners heard the warning Bell ; And then they knew the perilous Rock, And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
Page 78 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them : and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 7 - August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, in the necessary support, maintenance, and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, erected, placed, or sunk before the passing of this act, at the entrance of, or within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States, for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe, shall be defrayed out of the treasury of the United States.
Page 121 - I wanted the gold, and I sought it ; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold, and I got it — Came out with a fortune last fall, — Yet somehow life's not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn't all.
Page 78 - Now therefore command thou that they hew me cedar trees out of Lebanon; and my servants shall be with thy servants: and unto thee will I give hire for thy servants according to all that thou shalt appoint: for thou knowest that there is not among us any that can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians.
Page 121 - There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; It's luring me on as of old ; Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting, So much as just finding the gold.
Page 372 - I travelled on, and still met more the farther I proceeded. The air was literally filled with pigeons ; the light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse ; and the continued buzz of wings had a tendency to lull my senses to repose.
Page 372 - Before sunset I reached Louisville, distant from Hardensburgh fiftyfive miles. The Pigeons were still passing in undiminished numbers, and continued to do so for three days in succession. The people were all in arms. The banks of the Ohio were crowded with men and boys, incessantly shooting at the pilgrims, which there flew lower as they passed the river. Multitudes were thus destroyed. For a week or more, the population fed on no other flesh than that of Pigeons, and talked of nothing but Pigeons.
Page 480 - ... agreeing as they do in all essential respects with the bones of a recent people. Until additional skeletal material is obtained showing characters more primitive than those already noted, the burden of proof of great antiquity must rest on geological and paleontological evidence.