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on the Red

Wiley disregards the counsels of Aunt Phebe and Uncle Abram, and is caught by the Patrollers—The Organization and Duties of the latter—Wiley Runs Away—Speculations in regard to him—His Unexpected Return—His Capture on the Red River, and Confinement in Alexandria Jail—Discovered by Joseph B. Roberts—Subduing Dogs in anticipation of Escape—The Fugitives in the Great Pine Woods—Captured by Adam Taydem and the Indians—Augustus killed by Dogs—Nelly, Eldret's Slave Woman—The Story of Celeste—The Concerted Movement—Lew Cheney, the Traitor—The Idea of Insurrection, 236 CHAPTER XVIII.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

on the roads

The enemy had at Vicksburg, Grand Gulf, Jackson, and on the roads between these places, over sixty thousand men.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

of the Rat

Harden, A. , and Zilva, S. S. : (4) Accessory Factors in the Nutrition of the Rat, Biochem.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

of the roses

It is not one of the roses which sprouted forth from the blood-stained fame of Winkelreid.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

over the reading

‘Tis a book too serious and too venerable to be cursorily or slightly turned over: the reading of the scripture ought to be a temperate and premeditated act, and to which men should always add this devout preface, ‘sursum corda’, preparing even the body to so humble and composed a gesture and countenance as shall evidence a particular veneration and attention.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

of those red

Some of those red ones with white spots as well, and a few yellow.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

or THE REPORT

Maybe you'll be more content with industry insiders' expert views, as provided by the NewsNet newsletters OUTLOOK ON IBM, or THE REPORT ON IBM.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

of the Revolution

The curtain draws up, and suddenly a hundred and fifty years are rolled away, and in bright light stands out before us the whole life of the past; the gay dresses, the polished wit, the careless morals, and all the revel and dancing of those merry years before the mighty deluge of the Revolution.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

of those reveries

He lay back in the bow of the boat, and for a time appeared to have fallen into one of those reveries his companion knew so well.
— from The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys by Forrest Reid

obliged to return

General Gourgaud was obliged to return to the 'Bellerophon', not having been suffered to go on shore to deliver the letter from Bonaparte to the Prince Regent with which he had been entrusted.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

out to renew

The children ran out to renew acquaintance with the peacock, who, perched on an old stirrup-stone, was sunning his gay plumage in the noon-day.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

of the real

Fairyland might be just over the border of the real world, but it cost money to cross the seas.
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

on the rock

As the boat’s head was once more put off the shore the men caught sight of the person on the rock.
— from Ben Burton: Born and Bred at Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

of this road

We are free to say, however, that nothing can be less interesting than the line of this road until it strikes the Kennebeckasis River, when the traveler will be called upon to admire the Sussex Valley and a very fair farming region, which he would like to praise if it were not for exciting the jealousy of the “Garden of Nova Scotia.”
— from Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing by Charles Dudley Warner

of these requires

The preparation of these requires considerable care, but the product is highly prized by many.
— from Home Pork Making by A. W. (Albert Watson) Fulton

of the rock

It was a great disappointment, however, as Ostrog is a wonderful place, cut out of the rock, not perched on one as some of the monasteries of Mount Athos are, but partly excavated at a great height out of the face of the rock, and partly built on a ledge which the upper part of the rock overhangs.
— from Rambles in Istria, Dalmatia and Montenegro by R. H. R.

of the river

What life and action and heroism there was to him in the multitudinous roar of the forest, and what an eternity of existence in the monologue of the river which brawled far, far below him over its wide stony bed!
— from Being a Boy by Charles Dudley Warner

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