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But if things stood as they now do, I confess that whether as an American soldier, whether as a private man that said a great deal, and knows Congress have ordered much more to be said on the future exertions of America, who took a particular delight in praising the patriotic spirit of the United States, I would feel most unhappy and distressed, were I to tell the people that are coming over full of ardour and sanguine hopes, that we have no army to co-operate with them, no provisions to feed the few soldiers that are left, &c.
Celebrate believed that if he could once get out among 'em he could do well as a hunter and trapper; while Surajah kept listening to the honking of the wild geese and planning to catch enough of them with baited hooks to feed the whole family all the way to Negosha, and provide plenty of money by selling the surplus to the emigrants.
People have no reason at all no sense; they've got it into their heads that dirty job was of my making, and if the filly starts at ten to one, and I win a bit, they'll howl." "You can't make a success of racin', sir, an' run your stable for the public they don't pay the feed bill." "Perhaps you're right, Dixon," answered Porter.
The first year brought some returns the second was a drought with no returns the third the same. Hunger for themselves and starvation for their stock stared them in the face. They could not pick up and go back the rivers were dry from the Rio Grande to the Brazos the earth was iron, and the heavens brass; cattle wandered at will for water and feed, and their bones whitened the plains.
Course he will live here, and I will feed him, so papa can tell me what to give him, as pups are very hard to raise properly and it takes someone that knows how to do it. But you can really, truly own half of him." "What a good girl you are, Carrie!" exclaimed the other part owner, much impressed at Carrie's grand air of knowledge.
Buffaloes are to be met with on the lake with no more than their noses and eyes out of the water, and are not visible until they are approached within a few feet, when they cause alarm to the passengers by raising their large forms close to the boat. It is said that they resort to the lake to feed on a favorite grass that grows on its bottom in shallow water, and which they dive for.
I have not even wherewithal to feed a few solitary partridges; and I hear, that if I go beyond the green turf, once a park, I shall be warned off forthwith, and my very qualification disputed." "Are you fond of shooting?" said Lady Erpingham. "I fancy I should be; but I have never enjoyed the sport in England."
In the middle of the afternoon they came in sight of the home of Henry Brimstead. "Here's where we stop and feed, and listen to Henry's secrets," said Samson. The level fields were cut into squares outlined by wooden stakes. Brimstead was mowing the grass in his dooryard. He dropped his scythe and came to welcome the travelers.
No: but that he is your Father in heaven, who hateth nothing that he has made, and whose mercy is over all his works; who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that therein is; who keepeth truth for ever; who helpeth them to right that suffer wrong; who feedeth the hungry; a God who feeds the birds of the air, though they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and who clothes the grass of the field, which toils not, neither doth it spin; and who will much much more clothe and feed you, to whom he has given reason, understanding, and the power of learning his laws, the rules by which this world of his is made and works, and of turning them to your own profit in rational and honest labour.
I can feel the ambition of a young man; and were I one, how gladly would I put the world and its emptiness from me, and nurse and feed my soul and brain with the thoughts and souls of other men, till I was strong and great; and then, from my obscurity, I would come forth and take my place in the lead;" and her great eyes flashed.
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