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" The streams, not yet limited to a channel, spread over sand-bars, tufted with copses of willow, or waded through wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy... "
The Farmer's Magazine - Page 157
1860
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A history of the United States, Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pages
...wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps, that...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene, in harmony with the rude nature by...
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History of the United States: From the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1839 - 494 pages
...wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps, that...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene, in harmony with the rude nature by...
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History of the United States from the Discovery of the American ..., Volume 2

George Bancroft - 1844 - 500 pages
...wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps, that...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene, in harmony with the rude nature by...
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The School Reader. Fifth Book: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fouth Reader ...

Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 pages
...reeds. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps that were overhung by clouds of musketoes ; masses of decaying vegetation fed the exhalations...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. 4. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene, in harmony with the rude nature,...
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New York: A Historical Sketch of the Rise and Progress of the Metropolitan ...

Daniel Curry - 1853 - 360 pages
...wastes of reeds : or slowly, but surely, undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps, that...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature." $ 6. How the native inhabitants appeared. The land thus discovered was not altogether an uninhabited...
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The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of syeamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into ! sedgy swamps,...evening as deadly as it seemed grateful. Vegetable lite and death were mingled hideously together. The horrors of corruption frowned on the fruitless...
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History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent ...

George Bancroft - 1860 - 504 pages
...wastes of reeds ; or slowly but surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swamps, that...summer's evening as deadly as it seemed grateful. Life and death were hideously mingled. The horrors of corruption frowned on the fruitless fertility...
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British Farmer's Magazine, Issue 44

1863 - 606 pages
...which the wilderness he depicted has been transformed into the city of New York, which succeeds it ! Reptiles then sported in the stagnant pools. The spotted...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated Nature. should recollect, the diltrict of the Lothiini, which w» пот the centre of model and scientific...
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Sanders' Rhetorical, Or, Union Sixth Reader: Embracing a Full Exposition of ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...surely undermined the groups of sycamores that grew by their side. The smaller brooks spread out their sedgy swamps, that were overhung by clouds of mosquitoes;...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. 5. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene, in harmony with the rude nature...
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The School Reader: Designed as a Sequel to Sanders' Fourth Reader .... Fifth ...

Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 468 pages
...reeds. The smaller brooks spread out into sedgy swarnps that wero overhung by clouds of musketoes; masses of decaying vegetation fed the exhalations...on the fruitless fertility of uncultivated nature. 4. And man, the occupant of the soil, was wild as the savage scene,—in harmony with the rude nature,...
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