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Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1869], Hilt to hilt, or, Days and nights on the banks of the Shenandoah in the autumn of 1864. (G. W. Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf512T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Landon had turned his horse to ride down the I did not catch the words, but the blood rushed “Where?” he said, abruptly. “In the flat beyond the stream, captain.” Without a word Landon darted at full gallop From the boughs of this oak were hanging three “Look, captain,” said the man who had kept beside Landon spurred his horse up until the animal
Suddenly Landon forced his horse close to the On this paper was written, in heavy black letters: — “Such is the fate of the Night-Hawks. “By command of Landon read these words by the light of the “Order my command to assemble here, and bring I had reached his side as he uttered these words, “It is frightful,” I said; “and what course will With an icy glance the Partisan replied: — “The lex talionis is my code, colonel, — an eye As he spoke, the members of his command were
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886 [1869], Hilt to hilt, or, Days and nights on the banks of the Shenandoah in the autumn of 1864. (G. W. Carleton, New York) [word count] [eaf512T]. |