The Prairie-birdHarper & Bros., 1847 - 207 Seiten |
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allied band Atto band Baptiste Bearskin Bending-willow Besha bison Black Father blood brave brig brother camp chief Colonel Brandon companion concealed countenance Crows Dahcotah daugh David Muir dear Delaware desired encampment enemy escape Ethelston eyes fear feelings fell fire followed forward Gregson Guadaloupe hand head heard heart horse-dealer horses hunter hunting Indian inquired Jessie knew knife L'Estrange latter Lenapé lips Lita lodge looked Lucy Mahéga maiden Marietta Master Reginald Mike Smith Missionary Monsieur Perrot Mooshanne nald Nekimi Netis never night Nina Olitipa Osage party passed Paul Müller prairie Prairie-bird prisoners Regi Reginald Brandon replied rifle round scalp scarcely side silence sister smile soon speak Spirit spoke spot stood Tamenund tell tent thought tion tomahawk tone tongue Toweno trail tribe turned Upsaroka valley voice War-Eagle warriors Washashe whispered White-Bull Wingenund words wounded young youth
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Seite 189 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Seite 170 - There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise : the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer ; the conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; the locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands; the spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings
Seite 156 - O, WERT thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee. Or did misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a'.
Seite 156 - On yonder lea, on yonder lea, My plaidie to the angry airt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee ; Or did Misfortune's bitter storms Around thee blaw, around thee blaw, Thy bield should be my bosom, To share it a', to share it a". Or were I in the wildest waste, Sae black and bare, sae black and bare, The desert were a paradise, If thou wert there, if thou wert there : Or were I monarch o" the globe, Wi" thee to reign, wi' thee to reign, The brightest jewel in my crown Wad be my queen, wad be my queen.
Seite 170 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Seite 28 - Father," of whom you speak ?' " ' He is very good,' said the boy, seriously ; ' He talks with the Great Spirit ; and he tells us all that the Great Spirit has done ; how He made the earth, and the water ; and how He punishes bad men, and makes good men happy.' " ' He is a white man, then ?' said Lucy. " ' He is,' replied the lad ; ' but though he is a white man, he always speaks truth, and does good, and drinks no fire-water, and is never angry.
Seite 85 - ... momentary pause, Baptiste continued, in the same tone, ' Shall the tomahawk of the War-Eagle strike an adopted son of the Unami ? The Bad Spirit has entered my brother's heart ; let him hold a talk with himself, and remember that he is the son of Tamenund.' " By an effort of self-control, such as none but an Indian can exercise, War-Eagle subdued, instantaneously, all outward indication of the tempest that had been aroused in his breast. Replacing the tomahawk in his belt, he drew himself proudly...
Seite 88 - 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.'"—...