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beneath a northern sky and looked
it was the thunder of the winter-storm crashing among the many-tinted crags of Monte Pellegrino,—with the wind raging as it knows how to rage here in sight of the Isles of Aeolus, and the rain dashing on the glass as ruthlessly as it well could have done, if, instead of Aeolic Isles and many-tinted crags, the window had fronted a dearer shore beneath a northern sky, and looked across the grey Firth to the rain-blurred outline of the Lomond Hills. — from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa
Having stepped aboard.... {43} {42} AVING stepped aboard the Newfoundland mail-and-passenger boat at North Sydney, a little before ten p.m., the hour of sailing, one awakes next morning at Port aux Basques, in Newfoundland, hardly aware that one is out of Canada, until the courteous Customs Official with “Newfoundland” written on his cap, comes to examine one’s baggage. — from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward
but as neither spoke a long
There was a furtive and uneasy glance between her and the Carmelite; but as neither spoke, a long and thoughtful silence succeeded the rencontre. — from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper
Brunswick and Nova Scotia and La
The French, moreover, while recognizing the provisions of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, drew an arbitrary boundary of Nova Scotia: that of Missiquash River, now the boundary of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; and La Jonquière, then Governor of Canada, sent a force 115 under La Corne to erect a chain of forts from the Bay of Fundy to Bay Verte. — from England and Canada
A Summer Tour Between Old and New Westminster, with Historical Notes by Sandford Fleming
be a noble squire And live
“When I was young,” says the author of “The Boy’s Week-Day Book,”—another volume that is not read nowadays as much as it used to be,— I doubted not the time would come, When grown to man’s estate, That I would be a noble ‘squire, And live among the great. — from The Seven Ages of Man by Ralph Bergengren
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