The Californian, Volume 3Charles Frederick Holder Californian Publishing Company, 1893 |
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... river - loving datura , or stramonium ; and the feathery racemes of the wild currant , all add color to the scene ... Rivers , and bearing circular leaves a foot across , on erect stalks a yard or more in length . Descriptions of large ...
... river - loving datura , or stramonium ; and the feathery racemes of the wild currant , all add color to the scene ... Rivers , and bearing circular leaves a foot across , on erect stalks a yard or more in length . Descriptions of large ...
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... River , in Sonora , and there , when broken in fortune , he turned , in the hope of making more millions . His scheme was feasible . It was to plant colonies of Americans on these rich Sonora lands and grow all the products of this semi ...
... River , in Sonora , and there , when broken in fortune , he turned , in the hope of making more millions . His scheme was feasible . It was to plant colonies of Americans on these rich Sonora lands and grow all the products of this semi ...
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... River , about sixty miles north of the Golden Gate . Lumbermen saw mil- lions in the scheme . So Latham built a narrow gauge road , which skirted the coast . He put six millions into the venture , out of which he never drew legal ...
... River , about sixty miles north of the Golden Gate . Lumbermen saw mil- lions in the scheme . So Latham built a narrow gauge road , which skirted the coast . He put six millions into the venture , out of which he never drew legal ...
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... river traffic gave ; what risks rival captains and pilots took to get in ahead of one another ; what exciting races . seen with the great boats trembling under the dangerous throbbing of the engines . It was a life to stimulate all the ...
... river traffic gave ; what risks rival captains and pilots took to get in ahead of one another ; what exciting races . seen with the great boats trembling under the dangerous throbbing of the engines . It was a life to stimulate all the ...
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... River , yet he always preferred agriculture and fruit- growing . Through his close acquain- tance with the legal status of all the Spanish grants , he obtained possession of a large body of rich land at Chico , Butte County , which he ...
... River , yet he always preferred agriculture and fruit- growing . Through his close acquain- tance with the legal status of all the Spanish grants , he obtained possession of a large body of rich land at Chico , Butte County , which he ...
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Page 41 - For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram : once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
Page 556 - Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd WHEN lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.
Page 558 - The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
Page 160 - No more shall the war-cry sever, Or the winding rivers be red: They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead! Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment Day: — Love and tears for the Blue; Tears and love for the Gray.
Page 559 - Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.
Page 243 - No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within this State, or coming from or going to any other State.
Page 559 - Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems. You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,) You shall no longer take things at second or third hand, nor look through the eyes of the dead, nor feed on the spectres in books...
Page 192 - Come from the woods that belt the gray hill-side, The seven elms, the poplars four That stand beside my father's door, And chiefly from the brook that loves To purl o'er matted cress and ribbed sand, Or dimple in the dark of rushy coves, Drawing into his narrow earthen urn, In every elbow and turn, The filter'd tribute of the rough woodland.
Page 201 - By the island in the river Flowing down to Camelot. Four gray walls, and four gray towers, Overlook a space of flowers, And the silent isle imbowers The Lady of Shalott.
Page 62 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.