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More than ten hours have I been wandering up and down the banks of the river, and through the wood, to
A little and verdant grass-patch, only, intervened between them and the river, which the dwelling fronted
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 small, was swept away by a freshet in a river, and Arrow-Tip had dashed into the foaming
"And lest I should oversleep myself," said the boy, "come to my window, which opens on the river, and
He pushed open, a small, swinging door, and stood a few minutes gazing over the river, in the direction
The young men made themselves a rude raft, and were floating down the river toward their destination—for
through, so small was it—and gazed forth upon the land, and the trees, and a small strip of the bright river
gestures of wonder—and then both hurried away toward a path which led from the village along the river's
Paul's from the River,' and the 'Royal Exchange,' are unusually elegant specimens of steel engraving.
Some few miles off he could see a gleam of the Hudson river, and above it a spur of those rugged cliffs
graves of the dead, Down through chasms and gulfs profound, To the dreary fountain-head Of lakes and rivers
On a gentle elevation by the banks of the river flowing through the garden, stands the Human Father,
conveyance stopped was in Brooklyn, near one of the ferries that led over to the opposite side of the river