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Updated: June 5, 2025
He belonged on Canal Street, east side; and Canal Street, east side, seemed peaceful. The river had fallen absolutely silent. The last of Jimmy's flash-boards was in place. Back in the sleeping town the clock in Pierce's Tower struck two.
In her mind there had never been the slightest question of Pierce's innocence; any doubt of it, expressed or implied, awoke in her a sharp and bitter antagonism quite remarkable; no bird could have flown quicker to the aid of her chick, no wolf mother could have bristled more ferociously at threat to her cub, than did this serene, inexperienced girl-woman at hint of peril to Pierce Phillips.
General Scott, who was at Puebla with the main army awaiting this reenforcement, began his march towards the city of Mexico on the day after General Pierce's arrival. The battle of Contreras was fought on the 19th of August.
We have everything for our comfort, but such weather does not make life in camp at all attractive. Faye just came in from Major Pierce's tent, where he says he saw a funny sight.
A month of stampeding dulled the keen edge of Pierce's enthusiasm, so he took a breathing-spell in which to get his bearings. The Yukon had closed and the human flotsam and jetsam it had borne thither was settling.
She got a woman to look after the child, promised to pay her well, and went down into Lillie Pierce's world. Since the day she went she has never been out except to see the baby, until two weeks ago, when she moved into a decent place and took two rooms. Harrie had come back to her." "How old is the child?" "Ten months. She never intended it to know anything of its mother.
Pierce's complacency received its first jolt when he discovered that he had lost caste in the eyes of the better sort of people people such as he had been accustomed to associate with at home.
In the stormiest periods of his administration, Pierce came frankly to his aid. One of President Jackson's measures, which had Pierce's approval and support, was his veto of the Maysville Road Bill.
Pierce's presence surprised him. He greeted all four men with equally punctilious politeness, however, and gave courteous attention while Hollenbeck spoke for his colleagues. The merchant explained the purpose of the visit; set forth the importance to the city of the centennial Old Home Week, and urged the inadvisability of any sensationalism which might alarm the public.
The same decade of which I speak was marked by the beginning of Professor Pierce's mathematical work, especially his determination of the perturbations of Uranus and Neptune. At this time commenced the work of Dr. B. A. Gould, who soon became the leading figure in American astronomy.
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