Search
Search results
Displaying 151 - 160
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Sunrise
SunriseWould you know what joy is hid In our green Musketaquid, And for travelled eyes what charms Draw us to these meadow farms, Come and I will show you all Makes each day a festival. Stand…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, April 28, 1805
Day 621 Day 623 Lewis, April 28, 1805 Sunday April 28th 1805. Set out this morning at an early hour; the wind was favourable and we employed our sails to advantage. Capt Clark walked on…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Australian Grasshopper
The Life-Savers The Pavior The Australian Grasshopper A DISTINGUISHED Naturalist was travelling in Australia, when he saw a Kangaroo in session and flung a stone at it. The Kangaroo…The Little Peasant
The Little Peasant There was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants, and just one poor one, whom they called the little peasant. He had not even so much as a cow, and…Chauncey Judd: David Wooster's
Alarm in Judd's Meadow Wooster's Well David Wooster's As David had predicted, he and his comrades were received at his father's with cordiality. Mr. Wooster was that morning engaged…Chauncey Judd: Dayton's Den
Search for the Fugitives Captain John Wooster's Dayton's Den About a mile and a half west of David Wooster's is a naked bluff of rock, the extremity of which breaks into a jagged…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 26, 1805
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 25, 1805April 27, 1805April 26, 1805 Friday April 26th 1805. This morning I dispatched Joseph Fields up the yellowstone river with orders…Brewer's: Months
January. So called from “Janus,” the Roman deity that kept the gates of heaven. The image of Janus is represented with two faces looking opposite ways. One face is old, and is emblematical…Chauncey Judd: Pursuit from Bethany
Longmeadow Brook Alarm in Judd's Meadow Pursuit from Bethany Wearily the leaden hours of night dragged themselves onward, while Mrs. Dayton and her frightened children sat, where the…Walt Whitman: Passage to India, Part 3
Part 3Passage to India! Lo soul for thee of tableaus twain, I see in one the Suez canal initiated, open'd, I see the procession of steamships, the Empress Engenie's leading the van, I mark…Trending
Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
