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...ravens brought him [Elijah'] bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...
...United States, Great Britain and Russia determined the basic structure of the then unborn United Nations Organization, was given to Harvard by the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss. One of the largest Georgian estates in the District of Columbia, Dumbarton Oaks, built in 1800, possesses an orangery, a brook with miniature water falls, a yew walk, swimming pool, tennis courts and an old fashioned water wheel. The American Guide Series describes the house as having the "regal air of an 18th Century chateau...
...lineups: Lowell; le, Mack, P. Thomson; lt, Green; lg, Sporn, Marble; c, Brook, Post; rg, Richardson; rt, Silver; rc, Kaelber; backs, Wales, Briggs, Bowditch, Lyne, Smith, Allard...
...regiments of foot, gleaming in scarlet and gold. These were no mercenaries, like the Hessians beaten at Trenton; these were seasoned and loyal troops. From a striking force of perhaps 2,500 men, Washington detached a skeleton brigade led by General Hugh Mercer to destroy the bridge over Stony Brook. But it was too late. The British regulars shattered and scattered the raw American irregulars, gave Mercer a fatal wound. His panicked men infected Washington's main body...