Overland Monthly and Out West MagazineBret Harte A. Roman 1868-1875, 1909 |
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Page 127
... light of know- ledge upon their mystery . They had their day before the Selish came , and now , like those shadowy specters whose record is merely an untranslatable sign , the Sel- ish , in turn , are passing while vineyard and orchard ...
... light of know- ledge upon their mystery . They had their day before the Selish came , and now , like those shadowy specters whose record is merely an untranslatable sign , the Sel- ish , in turn , are passing while vineyard and orchard ...
Page 128
... light of recorded fact and then in the diaphanous glow of their own quaint myths and hero - tales . When Lewis and Clark penetrated the unknown in their adventurous journey , they found a particularly gentle and hos- pitable people who ...
... light of recorded fact and then in the diaphanous glow of their own quaint myths and hero - tales . When Lewis and Clark penetrated the unknown in their adventurous journey , they found a particularly gentle and hos- pitable people who ...
Page 132
... light is quite vanished from the hill - tops , while still the streams sing with articulate murmur , and the trees whisper regretfully of things lost forever , and a time that will come no more . We of the work - a - day world are too ...
... light is quite vanished from the hill - tops , while still the streams sing with articulate murmur , and the trees whisper regretfully of things lost forever , and a time that will come no more . We of the work - a - day world are too ...
Page 139
... light was gone from the sunset skies and night was at hand . Through the evening calm , the monoto- nous chant shrilled weirdly , and the tom- tom vibrated with the regularity of a pulse - beat . And as that strange , un- earthly ...
... light was gone from the sunset skies and night was at hand . Through the evening calm , the monoto- nous chant shrilled weirdly , and the tom- tom vibrated with the regularity of a pulse - beat . And as that strange , un- earthly ...
Page 144
... light they went down a dozen braves . The yell died , and with dead and wounded on their backs they fled . It was over in a minute , and to have let them go would have been prudence . But the new Lieutenant had smelled pow- der , and it ...
... light they went down a dozen braves . The yell died , and with dead and wounded on their backs they fled . It was over in a minute , and to have let them go would have been prudence . But the new Lieutenant had smelled pow- der , and it ...
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