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clients was an elderly widow, a foreigner." who kept a little ale-house, on the banks of the North River
how shall I describe the quiet beauties of the spot, with its long low piazza looking out upon the river
They would not bury him in the city, but away—by the solitary banks of the Hudson; The Hudson River flows
10th, the whole body of the detained merchantmen were allowed, by common consent, to proceed up the river
At four o'clock the next morning, she went to the river side to hire a boat to take her to the S ANDWICH
More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to
The house of P ETER B ROWN was situated at one end of the village, near the river, in a pleasant place
He pointed as he spoke, to a spot forty or fifty rods distant, on the same side of the river, where they
The child, then quite small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and A RROW -T IP had dashed into
"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens toward the river,
basement—perhaps she still lives there—in one of the streets leading down from B ROADWAY to the North river
an aged black woman, a widow, occupied a basement in one of the streets leading down to the North river