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Popular passages
Page 207 - never sown: This child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A lady of my own. 2. " Myself will to my darling be Both law and impulse : and with me The girl, in rock and plain, In earth and heaven, in glade and bower, Shall feel an overseeing power To kindle or restrain.
Page 194 - To see the form of a maiden fair Lashed close to a drifting mast. 21. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. 22. Such was the wreck of the
Page 208 - The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round; And beauty born of murmuring sound, Shall pass into her face. 6. "And vital
Page 193 - gusts between, A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf 4 On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. 17. The breakers were right beneath her bows; She drifted a dreary wreck; And a whooping * billow swept the crew, Like icicles, from
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Page 31 - It is not a book I want. 2. The war must go on. We must fight it through. 3. The cause will raise up armies ; the cause will create navies. 4. We shall make this a glorious, an immortal day. When we are in our graves, our children will honor it.
Page 249 - who had been taken prisoner hard by, and was universally known by the name of Major Andre's Tree. The common people regarded it with a mixture of respect and superstition. 5. As Ichabod approached this fearful tree, he began to whistle. He thought his whistle was answered. It was but a blast sweeping sharply
Page 251 - found without his saddle, and with the bridle under his feet, soberly cropping the grass at his master's gate, while near the bridge, beyond which, on the bank of a broad part of the brook, where the water ran deep and black, was found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside
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