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You didn't see her face." "I was just guessing. We Yankees are good at guessing. Don't you English concede that?" "Guessing and wooden nutmegs," said Mark, "both go with the Yankee character." "Guessing, wooden nutmegs, and a little taste of Brandywine thrown in for flavor."
Before this plan could be executed, counter intelligence was received inducing an opinion that the movement of the British on their left was a feint, and that the column under Lord Cornwallis, after making demonstrations of crossing the Brandywine above its forks, had marched down the southern side of that river to reunite itself with Knyphausen.
Oh! wasn't it just before the battle of Brandywine you joined the Pennsylvania line?" "No," answered Smith for Higgins, who, just then, was endeavoring to make up for his want of teeth by the vigorous exertions of his jaws. "He joined at the same time I did, before the battle of Germantown." "Yes, just before the battle of Germantown," added Higgins. "I was not at Brandywine." "You wasn't?
Defeated at Brandywine and Germantown, he had been forced from the forts after a desperate struggle, had seen Philadelphia and the river fall completely into the hands of the enemy, and, bitterest of all, he had been obliged to hold back from another assault on the British lines, and to content himself with baffling Howe when that gentleman came out and offered battle.
The Commander-in-Chief had lost Newport, New York and Philadelphia and been defeated on Long Island and in two pitched battles on ground of his own choosing at Brandywine and Germantown. The two scouts were angry. It had been a cold, wet afternoon and they, with others, were drying themselves around a big, open fire of logs in front of the camp post-office.
Obed laughed like the beginning of the bray of the jackass before he swings off into his "heehaw, heehaw." "Smash my eyes, man, but them barrels be full of pimento, all but that one with the red mark, and that be crackers fresh and sharp from the Brandywine mills." "Well, well, gunpowder or pimento, I'll set fire to it if you don't be civil."
Although the Captain was a gruff and blunt man, grizzled and weather-beaten, a woman-hater, he could be a delightful companion when once his confidence was gained; and as we drifted in the mild spring weather through the long reaches between the passes he talked of Trenton and Brandywine and Yorktown.
Amid the blessings and the prayers of a grateful people, Lafayette sailed for France in the new and beautiful frigate Brandywine, which had been built and named in his honor.
I bowed to the officer, who lacked the politeness to rise, merely saying, "Pleased to see you, Mr. Wynne." "We were talking," said Arthur, "when you came of the fight at the river with the queer name Brandywine, isn't it?" "No," said my father; "thou art mistaken, and I wished to ask thee, Arthur, what was it thou wert saying. We had ceased to speak of the war. Yes; it was of thy brother."
Small shops, of course, carrying a single line of goods and supplying their particular products to an exacting and discriminating class, held their own even against the established reputation of Brandywine & Plummer's. O'Connell's linen store, Twitlow's china store, Mrs.
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