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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
accessnounUS /ˈækses/
the right to enter
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Agnes
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Alden
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Alice
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
alongprepositionUS /əˈlɔːŋ/
following the length of something from one end toward the other
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
amongprepositionUS /əˈmʌŋ/
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
ancestraladjectiveUS /ænˈsestrəl/
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Belonging to the very distant past and no longer in existence or deeply revered.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
annalsnounUS /ˈænəlz/
reports of the work of a society or learned body etc
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
one or some or every or all without specification
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
assignedadjectiveUS /əˈsaɪnd/
appointed to a post or duty
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
in or near a particular place or position
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
attiredadjectiveUS /əˈtaɪrd/
dressed or clothed especially in fine attire; often used in combination
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
authenticadjectiveUS /əˈθentɪk/
conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
awenounUS /ɑː/
an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
azaleanounUS /əˈzeɪljə/
any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
bankernounUS /ˈbæŋkər/
a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
banquetsnounUS /ˈbæŋkwəts/
plural of “banquet” — a ceremonial dinner party for many people
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
barnsnounUS /bɑːrnz/
plural of “barn” — an outlying farm building for storing grain or animal feed and housing farm animals
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
battlings
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
Benning
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
blackberrynounUS /ˈblækberi/
large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
blushingadjectiveUS /ˈblʌʃɪŋ/
having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
brought into existence
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
state capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
bowlsnounUS /boʊlz/
a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
BravelyadverbUS /ˈbreɪvli/
in a courageous manner
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
bridgesnounUS /ˈbrɪdʒəz/
United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
brocadesnounUS /broʊˈkeɪdz/
plural of “brocade” — thick heavy expensive material with a raised pattern
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
an orange of low brightness and saturation
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
buckverbUS /bʌk/
to strive with determination
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
bucketnounUS /ˈbʌkət/
a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
ButterflyverbUS /ˈbʌtərflaɪ/
flutter like a butterfly
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
showing who or what does the action
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
calmeradjectiveUS /ˈkɑːmər/
comparative of “calm” — not agitated; without losing self-possession
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
CAMBRIDGEnounUS /ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ/
a university in England
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
inflected form of “come” — move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
capsnounUS /kæps/
plural of “cap” — a tight-fitting headdress
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
cattynounUS /ˈkæti/
any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
charmsnounUS /tʃɑːrmz/
plural of “charm” — attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Chichester
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
clingsnounUS /klɪŋz/
plural of “cling” — fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
clothing in general
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “companion” — a friend who is frequently in the company of another
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
an institution created to conduct business
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
containverbUS /kənˈteɪn/
include or contain; have as a component
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
continentnounUS /ˈkɑːntənənt/
one of the large landmasses of the earth
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
corneredadjectiveUS /ˈkɔːrnərd/
forced to turn and face attackers
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a politically organized body of people under a single government
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
cradlenounUS /ˈkreɪdəl/
a baby bed with sides and rockers
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
crowdsnounUS /kraʊdz/
plural of “crowd” — a large number of things or people considered together
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
cushionnounUS /ˈkʊʃən/
a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
damsels
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
dandies
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
deciduousadjectiveUS /ˌdɪˈsɪdʒuːəs/
(of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
DecorativeadjectiveUS /ˈdekrətɪv/
serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
designsnounUS /dɪˈzaɪnz/
plural of “design” — the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
didauxiliary verbUS /dɪd/
the past form of “do”, used in questions and negatives
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
down-stairs
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Edmund
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
elmnounUS /elm/
any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
elmsnounUS /elmz/
plural of “elm” — any of various trees of the genus Ulmus: important timber or shade trees
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
emprise
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From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
a division of the United Kingdom
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
an Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the commonwealth countries
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the organ of sight
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
fancifuladjectiveUS /ˈfænsɪfəl/
indulging in or influenced by fancy
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
something many people believe that is false
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
to a considerable degree; very much
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
farmsnounUS /fɑːrmz/
plural of “farm” — workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
fertileadjectiveUS /ˈfɜːrtəl/
capable of reproducing
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “a”; a small but indefinite number
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
FiddlingadjectiveUS /ˈfɪdlɪŋ/
(informal) small and of little importance
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a diagram or picture illustrating textual material
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
come upon, as if by accident; meet with
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
finestadjectiveUS /ˈfaɪnəst/
superlative of “fine” — being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
FirstadjectiveUS /fɜːrst/
preceding all others in time or space or degree
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
fishermen's
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
fishmongernounUS /ˈfɪʃmɑːŋɡər/
someone who sells fish
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
flag-staff
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Floyd
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
Frankland
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Frontispiecenoun
an ornamental facade
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
obtain
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
GardinernounUS /ˈɡɑːrdnər/
British historian remembered for his ten-volume history of England (1829-1902)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Garrett
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
soft and mild; not harsh or stern or severe
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
any creature of exceptional size
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a young female
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
coins made of gold
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the head of a state government
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Grape-vine
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
graveyardnounUS /ˈɡreɪvjɑːrd/
a tract of land used for burials
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
relatively large in size or number or extent; larger than others of its kind
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Guiney
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
past form of “happen” — come to pass
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
HarborverbUS /ˈhɑːrbər/
maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
harbor-borders
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
harpsichordnounUS /ˈhɑːrpsəkɔːrd/
a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Harriet
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
hastensverbUS /ˈheɪsənz/
third-person singular of “hasten” — act or move at high speed
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
hatsnounUS /hæts/
plural of “hat” — headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
hereinadverbUS /hɪˈrɪn/
in this place or thing or document
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
used when the woman or girl doing the action is also its object
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
greater than normal in degree or intensity or amount
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
Hilton
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the aggregate of past events
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
where you live at a particular time
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Hopkinton
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “house” — a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
humanadjectiveUS /ˈhjuːmən/
characteristic of humanity
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Imogen
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
InitialsnounUS /ˌɪˈnɪʃəlz/
plural of “initial” — the first letter of a word (especially a person's name)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/
moving to the inside of something
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Ireson's
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
belonging to the thing or animal already mentioned
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
jewelsnounUS /ˈdʒuːəlz/
plural of “jewel” — a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
John'snounUS /dʒɑːnz/
possessive form of “john” — a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
lacedadjectiveUS /leɪst/
closed with a lace
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
indicating the most important performer or role
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
having or showing profound knowledge
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
lindennounUS /ˈlɪndən/
soft light-colored wood of any of various linden trees; used in making crates and boxes and in carving and millwork
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
linkverbUS /lɪŋk/
make a logical or causal connection
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
LisbonnounUS /ˈlɪzbən/
capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
past form of “live” — be an inhabitant of or reside in
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
the capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
Louise
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by “as” or “too” or “so” or “that”; amounting to a large but indefinite number
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
Marbleheader
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
joined in matrimony
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Martha
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
master'snounUS /ˈmæstərz/
possessive form of “master” — an artist of consummate skill
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to say something is possible, or to give permission
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
MayflowernounUS /ˈmeɪflaʊər/
the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
mechanicnounUS /məˈkænɪk/
a craftsman skilled in operating machine tools
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
MedfordnounUS /ˈmedfərd/
a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the force of workers available
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
merchantsnounUS /ˈmɜːrtʃənts/
plural of “merchant” — a businessperson engaged in retail trade
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “mile” — a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
fail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
MollnounUS /mɑːl/
the girlfriend of a gangster
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a particular point in time
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
plural of “moment” — a particular point in time
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the time period between dawn and noon
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
mortificationnounUS /ˈmɔːrtəfkeɪʃən/
strong feelings of embarrassment
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a form of address for a married woman
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
muffledadjectiveUS /ˈmʌfəld/
being or made softer or less loud or clear
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
murmuringnounUS /ˈmɜːrmərɪŋ/
a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
a condition requiring relief
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
neighboringadjectiveUS /ˈneɪbərɪŋ/
having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
not ever; at no time in the past or future
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
NewportnounUS /ˈnuːpɔːrt/
a port city in southeastern Wales
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
nobleadjectiveUS /ˈnoʊbəl/
impressive in appearance
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
noblestadjectiveUS /ˈnoʊblɪst/
superlative of “noble” — impressive in appearance
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
and not; used after a negative to add a second negative
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
o'eradverb
throughout a period of time
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
many times at short intervals
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
(used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
operanounUS /ˈɑːprə/
a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to join alternatives or possibilities
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
others
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From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
OverprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “page” — one side of one leaf (of a book or magazine or newspaper or letter etc.) or the written or pictorial matter it contains
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
parentnounUS /ˈperənt/
a father or mother; one who begets or one who gives birth to or nurtures and raises a child; a relative who plays the role of guardian
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the time that has elapsed
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
petticoatsnounUS /ˈpetikoʊts/
plural of “petticoat” — undergarment worn under a skirt
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PicturesqueadjectiveUS /ˈpɪktʃərəsk/
suggesting or suitable for a picture; pretty as a picture
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
picturings
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
pigtails
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PilgrimsnounUS /ˈpɪlɡrəmz/
plural of “pilgrim” — someone who journeys in foreign lands
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
Pitcher'snounUS /ˈpɪtʃərz/
possessive form of “pitcher” — (baseball) the person who does the pitching
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a point located with respect to surface features of some region
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
participate in games or sport
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PlymouthnounUS /ˈplɪməθ/
a town in Massachusetts founded by Pilgrims in 1620
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PondsnounUS /pɑːndz/
plural of “pond” — a small lake
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
portsnounUS /pɔːrts/
plural of “port” — a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
PortsmouthnounUS /ˈpɔːrtsməθ/
a port city in southeastern Virginia on the Elizabeth River opposite Norfolk; naval base; shipyards
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
powderedadjectiveUS /ˈpaʊdərd/
consisting of fine particles
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
an expression of approval and commendation
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
like better; value more highly
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PrescottnounUS /ˈpreskɑːt/
a town in central Arizona
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
exert pressure or force to or upon
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
Priscilla
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
processionnounUS /prəˈseʃən/
(theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
promisesnounUS /ˈprɑːməsəz/
plural of “promise” — a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
ProvidencenounUS /ˈprɑː.və.dəns/
The protective care of God or nature as a spiritual power. (Sự quan phòng, thiên ý phù hộ.)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
prepared and printed for distribution and sale
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
PuritannounUS /ˈpjʊrətən/
a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
PuritansnounUS /ˈpjʊrətənz/
plural of “puritan” — a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
inflected form of “run” — move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
respectedadjectiveUS /rɪˈspektɪd/
receiving deferential regard
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
sound loudly and sonorously
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a relationship between two lovers
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
rottingnounUS /ˈrɑːtɪŋ/
(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
having or caused by an irregular surface
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Royall
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
rustlingnounUS /ˈrʌslɪŋ/
the stealing of cattle
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
Sabbatianoun
any of various plants of the genus Sabbatia having usually pink cymose flowers; occur from acid bogs to brackish marshes
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “sailor” — any member of a ship's crew
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
sandsnounUS /sændz/
the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “sea” — a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
put into a certain place or abstract location
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
shelteredadjectiveUS /ˈʃeltərd/
protected from danger or bad weather
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
transport commercially
From this reading The ship that it hastens Thy ports will contain, But me—I shall never See England again!”
plural of “ship” — a vessel that carries passengers or freight
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Shirley
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Shortridge
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a place within a region identified relative to a center or reference location
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
SilversnounUS /ˈsɪlvərz/
plural of “silver” — a soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal; occurs in argentite and in free form; used in coins and jewelry and tableware and photography
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
SlyadjectiveUS /slaɪ/
marked by skill in deception
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
snuff-boxes
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
solidadjectiveUS /ˈsɑːləd/
characterized by good substantial quality
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a male human offspring
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
soundingadjectiveUS /ˈsaʊndɪŋ/
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
spinningnounUS /ˈspɪnɪŋ/
creating thread
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
spiritedadjectiveUS /ˈspɪrɪtɪd/
displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Spofford
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From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
make square
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
St
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
StandishnounUS /ˈstændɪʃ/
English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
sterneradjectiveUS /ˈstɜːrnər/
comparative of “stern” — of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Stoodley's
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “story” — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
(physics) deformation of a physical body under the action of applied forces
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
strategicadjectiveUS /strəˈtiːdʒɪk/
relating to or concerned with strategy
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “street” — a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
SudburynounUS /ˈsʌdberi/
a city in south central Canada in Ontario; a major nickel mining center
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
definitely or positively (“sure” is sometimes used informally for “surely”)
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
Surriage
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
swallowverbUS /ˈswɑːloʊ/
pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
sweepingadjectiveUS /ˈswiːpɪŋ/
taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
swishing
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
used when the people doing the action are also its object
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
in or at that place or location
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “thought” — the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
an old word for “your”, speaking to one person
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a heading that names a statute or legislative bill; may give a brief summary of the matters it deals with
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
toweringadjectiveUS /ˈtaʊərɪŋ/
of imposing height; especially standing out above others
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
TragicadjectiveUS /ˈtrædʒɪk/
very sad; especially involving grief or death or destruction
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
plural of “tree” — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
consistent with fact or reality; not false
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
UnounUS /juː/
a base containing nitrogen that is found in RNA (but not in DNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
UniversitynounUS /ˌjuːnəˈvɜːrsəti/
the body of faculty and students at a university
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Up-stairs
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From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
employed in accomplishing something
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
go to see a place, as for entertainment
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
past form of “visit” — go to see a place, as for entertainment
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
migratory
From this reading I OFTEN fancy John Alden, and others, too, among his companions of kindly fame, wandering down the long Plymouth beach and murmuring to themselves thoughts like these.
wasauxiliary verbUS /wɑːz/
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
WaysidenounUS /ˈweɪsaɪd/
edge of a way or road or path
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
wealthyadjectiveUS /ˈwelθi/
having an abundant supply of money or possessions of value
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Wentworth
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
WestonnounUS /ˈwestən/
United States photographer(1886-1958)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
Wharves
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
change directions as if revolving on a pivot
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
in or at the place that
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
which person or people
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
wigsnounUS /wɪɡz/
plural of “wig” — hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
marked by extreme lack of restraint or control
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
WILSONnounUS /ˈwɪlsən/
author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (1808-1870)
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a movable organ for flying (one of a pair)
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
winsnounUS /wɪnz/
plural of “win” — a victory (as in a race or other competition)
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
in the company of; together with
From this reading THEIR true stories herein set forth by Mrs. Harriet Prescott Spofford Miss Louise Imogen Guiney and Miss Alice Brown With many little picturings authentic and fanciful by Edmund H Garrett and published by Little Brown and Company Boston 1894 University Press: JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. Martha Hilton.
plural of “woman” — an adult female person (as opposed to a man)
From this reading And I like to look in the annals of the gentle Pilgrims and the sterner Puritans for any pages where one may find muffled for a moment the strain of high emprise which wins our awe and our praise, but not so surely our love, and gain access on their more human side to the men and women who lived the noblest romance in all history.
Woodbinenoun
common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
the trees and other plants in a large densely wooded area
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
a unit of language that native speakers can identify
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.
yokelnounUS /ˈjoʊkel/
a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture
From this reading “With her sweeping brocades and a cushion towering upon her powdered head” _Frontispiece._ Priscilla at the spinning wheel 14 “In his rough cradle by the sounding sea” 17 Rose Standish 21 “The daring and spirited girl” 25 “Or in calmer moments reading the blessed promises of His word” 29 Miles Standish 33 “Up and down the sands I’d pace” 36 “Her respected parent” 37 “There, too, came Priscilla” 41 “Ponds set like jewels in the ring of the green woods” 43 “First happened on the Mayflower” 45 “The blushing Sabbatia” 47 John Alden 49 “Silvers its wave, its rustling wave” 51 The wedding procession 53 Grape-vine 56 Woodbine 57 The ships of the merchants 59 “Up-stairs and down-stairs ran the streets” 64 “Houses set ‘catty cornered’” 65 “An old Marbleheader” 67 “The solid dignity of the old Town House” 69 “The old graveyard” 71 “The wild azalea” 74 “The blackberry clings and crowds” 75 Butterfly 75 “Again he came riding” 77 “Bravely attired in small clothes and wigs” 81 “She learned to play on the harpsichord” 83 Frankland 85 “Tragic battlings of heart and conscience” 87 “All the more did she turn to Frankland” 89 “The giant box and a few ancient trees” 92 “At the banquets” 93 “His ancestral home” 95 “The opera was the finest on the continent” 97 Agnes Surriage 99 “They again visited Lisbon” 102 “Married a wealthy banker of Chichester” 104 “The little figure with the swishing bucket” 108 “Sly damsels in Puritan caps” 110 “Gold laced dandies at Newport” 111 “Nor need link herself with the neighboring yokel whom Providence had assigned her” 113 Where Governor Wentworth was born 114 “A fishmonger in London” 115 “He had the mortification to see her prefer one Shortridge, a mechanic” 117 “His snuff-boxes and his bowls” 118 Governor Benning Wentworth 119 Wentworth house at Little Harbor 121 “Her strategic eye upon master’s deciduous charms” 123 “The great buck of his day” 127 “Fiddling at Stoodley’s far into the morning” 131 “Wharves now rotting along the harbor-borders” 133 Old houses 139 An old English church 139 Picturesque barns 140 The Weston flag-staff 141 “Houses sheltered by great elms” 142 “Past fertile farms” 142 “Over picturesque stone bridges” 143 “Here is a noble elm” 144 The Wayside Inn, Sudbury 145 Great elms at Hopkinton 149 Shirley Place 151 The Royall House, Medford 153 Medford Square 155 Street leading to Moll Pitcher’s 156 Moll Pitcher’s house and the graveyard 157 Some fishermen’s hats 159 Circle Street and Floyd Ireson’s house 161 “This is where the sailors in pigtails and petticoats used to be” 165 St. John’s, Portsmouth 168 The Gardiner House and the linden 169 Stoodley’s 171 Plymouth, the home of Priscilla 172 A country road 173 Decorative designs Title, 7, 8, 9, 12, 105, 106, 134, 175 Initials 15, 63, 109, 137 PRISCILLA “The swallow with summer Will wing o’er the seas, The wind that I sigh to Will visit thy trees.