The Prairie-bird, Volume 3R. Bentley, 1844 |
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affectionate allied band attack Attō band Baptiste Bending-willow Besha bison Black Father Black-feet blanket blood braves bride brother Colonel Brandon Comanche companion concealed council countenance Crow camp Crow chief dark David Muir dear deep Delaware camp ears encampment enemy Ethelston eyes feeling fell fire followed forward genund Gregson ground hand heard heart hill horse-dealer horses hunter Indian Jessie knew knife latter Lenapé lips Lita lodge looked Lucy Mahéga maiden Marietta Medicine Missionary Monsieur Perrot Mooshanne mountain Muir myste Nekimi Netis night nund Olitipa Osage chief party passed path Paul Müller Pierre prairie Prairie-bird present prisoners Reginald Brandon replied rifle scalp scalp-locks scarcely side silence smile soon speak Spirit spot stood surprise tell tent thought tion tone tongue Toweno trail tribe truth Upsaroka valley voice War-Eagle warriors Washashe whence whispered White-Bull Wingenund words wounded young Delaware youth
Popular passages
Page 283 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 146 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 191 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Page 123 - On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee ; Or did Misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a". Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare, The desert were a paradise, If thou wert there, if thou wert there : Or were I monarch o" the globe, Wi" thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
Page 192 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Page 123 - O, WERT thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee. Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'.
Page 196 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature : The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Page 147 - The treasures of the deep are not so precious As are the concealed comforts of a man Locked up in woman's love. I scent the air Of blessings, when I come but near the house. What a delicious breath marriage sends forth. . . The violet bed's not sweeter.
Page 346 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 55 - Russian camp, and that this had given him considerable confidence in arranging the details of the attack. Sir Evelyn Wood had charge of the whole of the actual attack, and very great advantage was found to arise from the practice in night marching which hud been carried out under his orders at Aldershot.