Boys' Life of Captain John SmithT. Y Crowell, 1907 - 288 σελίδες |
Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
adventurers Anne Burras Archer arms army arrows asked barge began begged boat brave brought canoe Captain John Smith Captain Newport Captain Smith Chesapeake Bay chief colonists colony copper corn coun council eager Earl England English expedition explorers fear fight finally fire fish French friends gave gold Gosnold guns hatan hatchets head Indians islands James River Jamestown journey Kecoughtan kind king knew land leader learned lived London Meldritch Monacans natives Paspahegh peace pinnace plot Plymouth Pocahontas Powhatan President Prince prisoner promised Ratcliffe returned river sailed sailors savages Scrivener seemed sent settlement ship shot sick Sir Walter Raleigh Smith says soldiers soon starving storm strange swords tain Smith things told took town trade treach trees tribe Turks village Virginia Virginia Company Werowocomoco Wingfield wise wished
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Σελίδα 286 - ... being of so great a spirit however her stature. If she should not be well received— seeing this kingdom may rightly have a kingdom by her means— her present love to us and Christianity might turn to such scorn and fury as to divert all this good to the worst of evil, where finding so great a Queen should do her some honor more than she can imagine.
Σελίδα 102 - Our food was but a small can of barley sod in water to five men a day ; our drink cold water taken out of the river, which was at a flood very salt, at a low tide full of slime and filth, which was the destruction of many of our men.
Σελίδα 284 - King and his grim attendants ever saw : and thus inthralled in their barbarous power, I cannot say I felt the least occasion of want that was in the power of those my mortall foes to prevent, notwithstanding al their threats. After some six weeks...
Σελίδα 129 - Not long after, early in a morning a great fire was made in a long house, and a mat spread on the one side, as on the other; on the one they caused him to sit, and all the guard went out of the house, and presently came skipping in a great grim fellow: all painted over with coal, mingled with oil, and many snakes
Σελίδα 11 - The other Captain Turner, From field would never flee. With fifteen hundred fighting men, Alas ! there were no more, They fought with fourteen...
Σελίδα 280 - For the coronation of Powhatan, by whose advice you sent him such presents, I know not ; but this give me leave to tell you, I feare they will be the confusion of us all ere we heare from you againe.
Σελίδα 287 - How that he did divide from Pagans three Their Heads and Lives, Types of his Chivalry. For which great Service in that Climate done, Brave Sigismundus, King of Hungarion, Did give him as a Coat of Armes to wear, These Conquered Heads got by his Sword and Spear.
Σελίδα 280 - Ship we had not provision in victuals worth twenty pound, and we are more then two hundred to live upon this : the one halfe sicke, the other little better.
Σελίδα 204 - If your king have sent me presents, I also am a king and this [is] my land. Eight days I will stay to receive them. Your father is to come to me, not I to him, nor yet to your fort; neither will I bite at such a bait. As for the Monacans, I can revenge my own injuries...
Σελίδα 285 - His instrument, or her extraordinary affection to our nation, I know not; but of this I am sure, —when her father, with the utmost of his policy and power, sought to surprise me, having but eighteen with me, the dark night could not affright her from coming through the irksome woods, and with watered eyes, gave me intelligence, with her best advice, to escape his fury; which had he known, he had surely slain her.