Bernard Lile: An Historical Romance, Embracing the Periods of the Texas Revolution, and the Mexican WarJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1856 - 287페이지 |
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American answered approached army asked battle beauty Ben Milam Bernard Lile better Black blood bosom bowie knife boys Camanches captain companion danger daring dark dead death door dream earth enemy Fannin fear feeling fierce fire followed Glanton Goliad gone Hacienda hand heart heaven hope horses hour Huamantla human hundred hunter JEREMIAH CLEMENS Jim Black John Abbott John Glanton knew knife lancers land light Lile and Simpson look Metamoras Mexican Mexico Milam mingled Monsieur Evadne Montgomery morning murder never night passed passion prairie reply rifle Robert Wilson rose round shot rude rushed San Antonio Santa Anna sentry shot side sleep slowly soldier soon struggle tell Texan Texas thing thought tion Tom Simpson tree troops turned voice walked walls watch wide prairie wild Winter words wounded young Zerah
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97 페이지 - And tall, and strong, and swift of foot were they, Beyond the dwarfing city's pale abortions, Because their thoughts had never been the prey Of care or gain...
237 페이지 - All was prepared — the fire, the sword, the men To wield them in their terrible array. The army, like a lion from his den, March'd forth with nerve and sinews bent to slay, — A human Hydra, issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way.
37 페이지 - This should have been a noble creature: he Hath all the energy which would have made A goodly frame of glorious elements, Had they been wisely mingled; as it is, It is an awful chaos — light and darkness, And mind and dust, and passions and pure thoughts, Mix'd, and contending without end or order, All dormant or destructive.
117 페이지 - Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save ! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave ? Yet, though destruction sweep these lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men ! our country yet remains ! By that dread name we wave the sword on high ! And swear for her to live ! with her to die...
284 페이지 - Far as the eye could reach, no tree was seen, Earth, clad in russet, scorned the lively green. The plague of locusts they secure defy, For in three hours a grasshopper must die. No living thing, whate'er its food, feasts there, But the chameleon, who can feast on air.
284 페이지 - No bee was known to hum, no dove to coo: No streams, as amber smooth, as amber clear, Were seen to glide, or heard to warble here...
215 페이지 - An American whose ill fortune has made him, for any number of days, a sojourner in the city of Metamoras [sic], can have no difficulty in tracing the origin of the term "greaser". . . . Narrow, muddy, filthy streets, swarming with men, women and children as filthy. . . . The people look greasy, their clothes are greasy, their dogs are greasy, their houses are greasy — everywhere grease and filth hold divided dominion, and the singular appropriateness of the name . . . soon caused it to be universally...
215 페이지 - The people look greasy, their clothes are greasy, their dogs are greasy, their houses are greasy — everywhere grease and filth hold divided dominion, and the singular appropriateness of the name bestowed by the western settlers, soon caused it to be universally adopted by the American army. (pp. 36-37) Clemens' etymology is still widely accepted and is kept current by the art of Hollywood make-up men.
237 페이지 - And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, 'We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
118 페이지 - And such they are — and such they will be found : Not so Leonidas and Washington, Whose every battle-field is holy ground, Which breathes of nations saved, not worlds undone. How sweetly on the ear such echoes sound ! While the mere victor's may appal or stun The servile and the vain, such names will be A watchword till the future shall be free.