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"Since our excursion to the Necropolis the day before yesterday it was she speaks only of thee, praising thy ability, and thy strong manly spirit. It is as if some charm obliged her to think of thee." The pioneer began to walk so fast that his small companion once more had to ask him to moderate his steps.
The pioneer, who had grown up under her eyes, whose weaknesses she knew, and whom she was accustomed to look down upon, suddenly appeared to her as a different man almost a stranger as the deliverer of his friends, and the merciless antagonist of his enemies. These reflections had passed rapidly through her mind.
He did not attempt to make physics explain metaphysics, nor metaphysics the phenomena of the natural world; and he reasoned only from what was generally assumed to be true and invariable. He was a great pioneer of philosophy, since he resorted to inductive methods of proof, and gave general definiteness to ideas.
Do you think this white thief had anything to do with carrying her away?" "No. Wetzel says that's Bing Legget's work. The Shawnees were members of his gang." "Well, Jack, what'll I do?" "Keep quiet an' wait," was the borderman's answer. Colonel Zane, old pioneer and frontiersman though he was, shuddered as he went to his room. His brother's dark look, and his deadly calmness, were significant.
It is this characteristic that makes her presence on the frontier so essential to a successful prosecution of true pioneer enterprises. The man's work is one of destruction and subjugation. He must level the forest, break the soil, and fight all the forces that oppose him in his progress.
His theory or plan may be taken as the pioneer of the many wild and visionary projects of the central and abolition force, that took shape and form not only during the war, but after hostilities ceased and the rebels were subdued. Mr.
The axe and the gun, the one to conquer the forces of wild nature, the other to battle against savage man and beast these were the twin weapons that the pioneer always kept beside him, whether on the march or during a halt.
So when Martyn started as pioneer on the morning before the others arrived, he descended into Beachharbour later than he intended, but still he was in time to meet Anne Fordyce, a tall, bright-faced girl of fourteen, taking her after-lessons turn on the parade with a governess, who looked amazed as the two met, holding out both hands to one another, with eager joy and welcome.
But I have the misfortune to own a little box on the Saucelito shore. I'll be glad to see you there any Sunday without the fellows in kilts, you know; and I can give you a bottle of wine, and show you the best collection of Arctic voyages in the States. Morgan is my name Judge Morgan a Welshman and a forty-niner." "O, if you're a pioneer," cried I, "come to me, and I'll provide you with an axe."
Raising her head, Jane suddenly sat very straight on the bench, her gray eyes alive with resolution. "You don't need to tell me that, Janie." Her father took one of Jane's slender white hands between his own strong brown ones. "You showed yourself a real pioneer freshman. They say the freshman year's always the hardest. I know mine was at Atherton.
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