A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834 - 211 oldal |
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Adam Huntsman Alamo army asked bear Bee hunter began boat called camp Colonel commenced Congress Coosa river corn creek crossed DAVID CROCKETT determined distance dogs dollars election enemy eyes father felt fight fire Flying Dutchman followed Fort Montgomery Fort Strother gave go ahead Goliad gone hand harricane head heard horse hundred hunt Indians Jackson killed knife know'd land Little Rock lived looked Major Russell marched Martin Van Buren meat Mexicans mighty miles morning mustang Nacogdoches Natchitoches never night Obion river poor prairie pretty returned rifle river Santa Anna sent shot soon sort started stop'd Tennessee Texas Texians Thimblerig thimbles thing thought tion told took town tree turned vote waggoner wanted Weakley county whole wife wild young
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37. oldal - I went to the ground from which he had risen, and there was the prints of his two thumbs, plunged up to the balls in the mellow earth, about the distance of a man's eyes apart, and the ground around was broken up, as if two stags had been engaged upon it.
176. oldal - Anna, who, having overturned the constitution of his country, now offers us the cruel alternative either to abandon our homes, acquired by so many privations, or submit to the most intolerable of all tyranny, the combined despotism of the sword and the priesthood.
35. oldal - I was slowly rising the slope, when I was startled by loud, profane, and boisterous voices which seemed to proceed from a thick covert of undergrowth about two hundred yards in the advance of me, and about one hundred to the right of my road. "You kin, kin you?
176. oldal - The Mexican government, by its colonization laws, invited and induced the Anglo-American population of Texas to colonize its wilderness, under the pledged faith of a written constitution, that they should continue to enjoy that constitutional liberty and republican form of government to which they had been habituated in the land of their birth, the United States of America.
22. oldal - ... found out. The way I got to the blind side of the Yankee merchant was pretty generally known before election day, and the result was that my opponent might as well have whistled jigs to a milestone as attempt to beat up for votes in that district. I beat him out and out, quite back into the old year, and there was scarce enough left of him, after the canvass was over, to make a small grease spot. He disappeared without even leaving a mark behind; and such will be the fate of Adam Huntsman, if...
178. oldal - I had done the other. Night now came on, but no word from my dogs yet. I afterwards found they had treed the bear about five miles off, near to a man's house, and had barked at it the whole enduring night. Poor fellows! many a time they looked for me, and wondered why I didn't come, for they knowed there was no mistake in me, and I know'd they were as good as ever fluttered.
35. oldal - I'll see you a fair fight, blast my old shoes if I don't." "That's sufficient, as Tom Haynes said when he saw the Elephant. Now let him come.
46. oldal - I know'd very well if I staid there, I should get a bad name, as nobody could be respectable that would live there. I therefore returned to my father and gave him up his paper, which seemed to please him mightily, for though he was poor, he was an honest man, and always tried mighty hard to pay off his debts. I next went to the house of an honest old Quaker, by the name of John Kennedy, who had removed from North Carolina, and proposed to hire myself to him, at two shillings a day. He agreed to take...
36. oldal - I had overcome about half the space which separated it from me, when I saw the combatants come to the ground, and, after a short struggle, I saw the uppermost one (for I could not see the other) make a heavy plunge with both his thumbs, and at the same instant I heard a cry in the accent of keenest torture,
35. oldal - Oh, wake snakes, and walk your chalks! Brimstone and— fire! Don't hold me, Nick Stoval! The fight's made up, and let's go at it— My soul if I don't jump down his throat, and gallop every chitterling out of him before you can say 'quit'!