Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage: A Woman's Unique Experience During Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to MexicoG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911 - 673 עמודים |
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עמוד 629 - O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted...
עמוד 162 - Merry it is in the good greenwood, When the mavis* and merle' are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.
עמוד 331 - Singing through the forests, Rattling over ridges, Shooting under arches, Rumbling over bridges, Whizzing through the mountains, Buzzing o'er the vale ; Bless me ! this is pleasant, Riding on the Rail ! ^RAPE')OF THE LOCK.
עמוד 514 - The fairest action of our human life Is scorning to revenge an injury ; ! For who forgives without a further strife, His adversary's heart to him doth tie. And 'tis a firmer conquest truly said. To win the heart, than overthrow the head.
עמוד 204 - When I discovered that if I was quick I was fast," he said, "and that if I was tied I was fast; if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, 'The first one won one one-dollar prize', I gave up trying to learn English.
עמוד 398 - He cut the top from a plant about five feet high and with a blunt stake of palo verde pounded to a pulp the upper six or eight inches of white flesh in the standing trunk. From this, handful by handful, he squeezed the water into the bowl he had made in the top of the trunk, throwing the discarded pulp on the ground. By this process he secured two or three quarts of clear water, slightly salty and slightly bitter to the taste but of far better quality than some of the water a desert traveler is occasionally...
עמוד 385 - OH ! had we some bright little isle of our own, In a blue summer ocean, far off and alone, Where a leaf never dies in the still blooming bowers, And the bee banquets on through a whole year of flowers ; Where the sun loves to pause With so fond a delay, That the night only draws A thin veil o'er the day; Where simply to feel that we breathe, that we live, Is worth the best joy that life elsewhere can give.
עמוד 399 - ... had made in the top of the trunk, throwing the discarded pulp on the ground. By this process he secured two or three quarts of clear water, slightly salty and slightly bitter to the taste but of far better quality than some of the water a desert traveler is occasionally compelled to use. The Papago dipping this water up in his hands drank it with evident pleasure, and said that his people were accustomed not only to secure their drinking water in this way in times of extreme drouth but that they...
עמוד 147 - s not a task to mankind given, There 's not a blessing or a woe, There 's not a whisper, Yes or No, There 's not a life, or death, or birth, That has a feather's weight of worth, Without a woman in it.