 He paused, and moved towards the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed powerful interest. Once more the pedler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid, but commanding features of the General, with regret and reverence, and then, bowing...  The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground - Page 277by James Fenimore Cooper - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1880 - 242 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding...triumph that had commenced in difficulties. Great Britain soon after became disgusted with the war ; and the independence of the States was acknowledged.... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned and seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding...features of the general with regret and reverence, arid then, bowing low, he withdrew. The armies of America and France were led by their illustrious... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned and seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding...triumph that had commenced in difficulties. Great Britain soon after became disgusted with the war, and the inde- ! pendence of the States was acknowledged.... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - Readers - 1880 - 238 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding...withdrew. The armies of America and France were led by theii illustrious commander against the enemy under Cornwallis, and terminated a campaign in triumph... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1900 - 544 pages
...followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned and HARVEY BIRCH. seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding features...triumph that had commenced in difficulties. Great Britain soon after became disgusted with the war, and the independence of the States was acknowledged.... | |
 | Marion Florence Lansing - College and school drama - 1914 - 264 pages
...towards the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid, but commanding...and reverence, and then, bowing low, he withdrew. III. THIRTY-THREE YEARS AFTER It was thirty-three years after the interview which we have just related... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson, Helen Winslow Dickinson Dickinson - United States - 1917 - 356 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid but commanding...triumph that had commenced in difficulties. Great Britain soon after became disgusted with the war; and the independence of the States was acknowledged.... | |
 | Patriotism - 1919 - 168 pages
...toward the door. The officer followed him with eyes that expressed deep interest. Once more the peddler turned, and seemed to gaze on the placid, but commanding...reverence, and then, bowing low, he withdrew. THE GRAY CHAMPION THERE was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs... | |
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