The Prairie-bird, Volume 2

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R. Bentley, 1844 - English fiction - 372 pages
 

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Page 132 - Vol. ii., p. 128-131. He then meets Eeginald, and this is what passes between them : — " ' The Great Spirit sent a cloud between Netis and War-Eagle — a very black cloud ; the lightning came from it and blinded the eyes of the Lenape chief, so that he looked on his brother and thought he saw an enemy. The Bad Spirit whispered in his ear that the tongue of Netis was forked ; that the heart of Olitipa was false ; that she had listened to a mocking-bird, and had mingled for War-Eagle a cup of poison.'"—...
Page 124 - Paul Miiller, looking on him with a smile, benevolent though somewhat melancholy, said, " I shut my ears, my son, and go, for I know that War-Eagle will speak nothing that his sister should not hear;" and, so saying, he retired into his adjacent compartment of the tent.
Page 126 - ... The noble heart to which she appealed had gone through its fiery ordeal of torture, and triumphed over it. After the manner of his tribe, the Delaware, before relinquishing her hand, pressed it for a moment to his chest, in token of affection, and said, ' It is enough ; my sister's words are good, they are not spilt upon the ground; let Mahega or the Dahcotahs come near the lodge of Olitipa, and they shall learn that War-Eagle is her brother !' The chieftain's hand rested lightly on his tomahawk,...
Page 192 - ... be allowed a coxswain, for ¿£100 aside. The distance to be rowed from Ostend to Bruges. This took place on the 25th of April, but we had not heard the result in time for the present number. Newell was chosen as
Page 127 - ... breath of allusion to his successful rival's name kindled the embers of jealousy that slumbered beneath them. "As he walked from her tent, the young Indian's heart dilated within him ; he trod the earth with a proud and lordly step ; he had grappled with his passion ; and though it had been riveted ' to his soul with hooks of steel,' he had plucked it forth with an unflinching hand, and he now met his deep-rooted grief with the same lofty brow and unconquerable will with which he would have braved...
Page 119 - He then added, in a lower tone, " War-Eagle will speak to Netis; not now; if his white brother's tongue has been forked, the Medicine of the Unami shall not protect him. The sky is very black, and WarEagle has no friend left." So saying, the Indian threw his light blanket over his shoulder and stalked gloomily from the spot. Baptiste followed with his eye the retreating figure of the Delaware, until it was lost in the dense foliage of the wood.
Page 13 - can he make such a tale pass current among a people who are well known to consider the female sex in so inferior and degraded a light...
Page 185 - College them in his time. This description was immortalized in the "Deserted Village," in which the author, Oliver Goldsmith, tells of the great changes that had taken place in the course of the last few years. The village was deserted, the houses were dilapidated, the gardens grown to weeds; and instead of the cheerful hum of toil that had filled the homes of the village formerly, there was now the stillness of death overhanging the whole countryside. . What happened during these years was that...

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