The World and Its People, Book 3Larkin Dunton Silver, Burdett, 1890 |
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Atlantic Atlantic Ocean banks beautiful bluffs Boston boys and girls bridge broad buildings built cable-car California called canal Cape Cape Charles Cape Henlopen Cape Henry capital Capitol cars cattle CHAPTER Chesapeake Bay Chicago Chicago River coal coast comes cotton cross distance Erie Canal falls famous farms fence Florida fruit grain ground grow Gulf Gulf of Mexico harbor hills homes houses hundred miles Illinois Indian inlets islands Lake Champlain Lake Erie Lake Ontario land largest city live look Mexico mills Mississippi Mississippi River Missouri mountains narrow northern ocean Ohio River orange-grove oranges Orleans park pass plains pleasant Potomac River prairies railroad ranch ride rocks sail salt San Francisco sandy seen ships shores side spring steamer steamer goes stone stream streets summer Texas town train trees valley walk Washington wheat winter York
Popular passages
Page 47 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 79 - UP from the meadows rich with corn, Clear in the cool September morn, The clustered spires of Frederick stand Green-walled by the hills of Maryland. Round about them orchards sweep, Apple and peach tree fruited deep, Fair as a garden of the Lord To the eyes of the famished rebel horde On that pleasant morn of the early fall When Lee marched over the mountain wall,— Over the mountains winding down, Horse and foot into Frederick town.
Page 151 - Soon were lost in a maze of sluggish and devious waters, Which, like a network of steel, extended in every direction. Over their heads the towering and tenebrous boughs of the cypress Met in a dusky arch, and trailing mosses in mid-air Waved like banners that hang on the walls of ancient cathedrals.
Page 55 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 177 - WE cross the prairie as of old The pilgrims crossed the sea, To make the West, as they the East, The homestead of the free...
Page 54 - Colder and louder blew the wind, A gale from the northeast, The snow fell hissing in the brine, And the billows frothed like yeast. Down came the storm, and smote amain The vessel in its strength ; She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed, Then leaped her cable's length.
Page 177 - We go to plant her common schools On distant prairie swells, And give the Sabbaths of the wild The music of her bells. Upbearing, like the Ark of old, The Bible in our van, We go to test the truth of God Against the fraud of man.
Page 61 - Between the Green Mountains of Vermont and the Adirondack Mountains of New York lies a beautiful lake called Lake Champlain.
Page 55 - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow!
Page 114 - Not for thy sheaves nor savannas Crown we thee, proud Illinois! Here in his grave is thy grandeur ; Born of his sorrow thy joy. Only the tomb by Mount Zion Hewn for the Lord do we hold Dearer than his in thy prairies, Girdled with harvests of gold.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The World and Its People, Book 3 The World and Its People, Larkin Dunton The young folks' library for school and home |
| Editor | Larkin Dunton |
| Publisher | Silver, Burdett, 1890 |
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