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... appeal, he sent his brother to England, and at last, wearied with waiting, set off for France. Then Queen Isabella of Spain was persuaded to act. Columbus was recalled, [7] ships were provided with which to make the voyage, and on Friday, the 3d of August, 1492, the Santa Maria (sahn'tah mah-ree'ah), the Pinta (peen'tah), and the Nia (neen'yah) set sail from Palos (pah'los), on one of the greatest voyages ever made ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... first river of Ireland, and largest in the British Islands, rises in the Cuilcagh Mountains, Co. Cavan; flows in a south-westerly direction through Loughs Allen, Ree, and Derg, besides forming several lough expansions, to Limerick, whence it turns due W., and opens out on the Atlantic in a wide estuary between Kerry (S.) and Clare (N.); has an entire course of 254 m., and is navigable to Lough Allen, a distance ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... Cleo reflected, when once again they started over the rough road toward Cragsnook. "It ought to be pronounced as it is spelled instead of 'ree'—she looks red enough in that ...
— The Girl Scouts at Bellaire - Or Maid Mary's Awakening • Lilian C. McNamara Garis

... beds," said Madame Clementine, in mixed French and English, as she poked her mattresses. "Des bons lits! T'ree dollar one chambre, four dollar one chambre—" she suddenly spread her hands to include both—"seven ...
— The Blue Man - From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

... take t'ree nights to march through I was afraid of dem an' clim' into a tree. One call me down an' say, "I am your frien'". He give me a piece of money an' ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration

... therefore extracted the following data relative to its principal volcanoes and their eruptions from such books of reference [Footnote: Mrs Somerville's 'Physical Geography;' Chambers' 'Encyclopædia;' Ree's 'Cyclopædia;' Lyell's 'Geology;' Mr George Lock's 'Guide to Iceland.'] as have been available ...
— A Girl's Ride in Iceland • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... unspoken tribute to his vessel's sailing powers)—"Ah gif you a chanst. Ah make de bett dis vay—look. Ve goes to Falmouth—you und me, hein? Now, de first who comes on de shore vins de money. Dot vill gif you t'ree days' start, no?" ...
— Great Sea Stories • Various

... malgxojigi. Affluence ricxeco. Affluent ricxega. Afford, to give doni. Affray batigxo. Affright timigi. Affront insulto. Afloat flose, nagxe. Afraid timigita. Aft posta parto. After post. Aftermath postfojno. Afternoon posttagmezo. Afterwards poste. Again ree. Against kontraux. Agate agato. Age agxo. Aged maljuna. Agency agenteco. Agenda memorlibro. Agent agento. Aggrandize pligrandigi. Aggrandisement pligrandigo. Aggravate plimalbonigi. Aggression atako. Aggressor atakanto. Aghast terurega. Agile facilmova. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... "Take banana. T'ree fo' five centa," urged the black eyed girl, with large ear rings, who had supplied ...
— Ralph Granger's Fortunes • William Perry Brown

... a future life, a nobler copy of our own, Where every riddle shall be ree'd, where every knowledge shall be known; Where 'twill be man's to see the whole of what on earth he sees a part; Where change shall ne'er surcharge the thought; nor hope deferred shall hurt the heart. But—faded flower and ...
— Volume 10 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... got some good horse dere, but Zepherin don't care. He's back it up, hees own paroisse, ba golly, An' he mak' it t'ree doll-arre w'en Maskinonge Star On de two mile ...
— Humour of the North • Lawrence J. Burpee

... the church, it is most probable that this mischievous practice was first introduced by their clergy. By various operations the river was forced into a new channel, and a very strong fence, called a ree, was built to ensure its perpetual exclusion. The success which attended this operation roused the cupidity of the Archbishops of Canterbury, who considering it as an excellent method for increasing their property, continued ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 574 - Vol. XX, No. 574. Saturday, November 3, 1832 • Various

... under ground at work when the explosion took place, who was thrown to our side. He was not much hurt, but terribly frightened. Some one asked him how high he had gone up. "Dun no, massa, but t'ink 'bout t'ree mile," was his reply. General Logan commanded at this point and took this colored man to his quarters, where he did service to the ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... among beasts, and his talons none of the shortest, only he eats not grass, because he loves not salads. His hand guides the plough, and the plough his thoughts, and his ditch and land-mark is the very mound of his meditations. He expostulates with his oxen very understandingly, and speaks gee, and ree, better than English. His mind is not much distracted with objects, but if a good fat cow come in his way, he stands dumb and astonished, and though his haste be never so great, will fix here half an hour's contemplation. His habitation is some poor thatched ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... "Yes, sir-ree! An' make no mistake! Deely Wornum married my son, an' Henry Clay Bivina made 'er a good husbun', if I do have to give it out myse'f. Yes, 'ndeed! An' yit if you'd 'a heern the rippit them Wornums kicked up, you'd 'a thought the pore chile'd done took'n ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris

... bear witness against me that this damsel is more learned than I in medicine and what else, and that I cannot cope with her." And he put off his clothes and fled forth. Quoth the Caliph to Tawaddud, "Ree us thy riddle," and she replied, "O Commander of the Faithful, it is the button and the button-loop.[FN414]"—Then she undertook the astronomers and said, "Let him of you who is an astronomer rise and come forward." So the astronomer advanced and sat down ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton

... paint me now. 'Not on your life' says I. 'You'd be doing double stunts with my freckles, and I won't stand for it.'" She laughed. "No sir-ree, I don't let any artist tip my freckles edgewise just to see how flip he is at it. I like Mr. Congdon, but I don't trust him—he's ...
— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... woman. I tell you I not that kind-a man. I never hit my wife. No, never I hurt her when she devil me something awful!" He struck his fist down on the warden's desk so hard that he afterward stroked it absently. A pale pink crept over his neck and face. "Two, t'ree years I know dat woman don' care no more 'bout me, Alexandra Bergson. I know she after some other man. I know her, oo-oo! An' I ain't never hurt her. I never would-a done dat, if I ain't had dat gun along. I don' know what in hell make me take dat gun. She always say I ain't ...
— O Pioneers! • Willa Cather

... folk dere, Mebbe wan or two or t'ree, Canayen is comin' workin' on de State— Den you see petite Marie Leetle Joe an' Angelique, Hormisdas an' Dieudonne, But you can't tole half de nam'—it don't matter any way— 'Sides de fader he don't ...
— The Voyageur and Other Poems • William Henry Drummond

... is it? Very well; you skip to town wid that note and get it in your master's hands before the cathedral clock strikes twelve, or ye'll suffer. There's a car in t'ree minutes." ...
— Waring's Peril • Charles King

... said she, sternly. "Don't let me hear another word out of you. The idea! Just as soon as she thinks you're safely married to some one who can give that child a home she up and tries to get rid of her. The shameless thing! No, sir-ree! She can't shuffle her brat off on me. Not if I know ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon

... white-shrouded and icy hills. Crouched under the "cauld drift," she recalls every image of horror—"the yellow-wymed ask," "the hairy adder," "the auld moon-bowing tyke," "the ghaist at e'en,", "the sour bullister," "the milk on the taed's back." She hates these, but "waur she hates Robin-a-Ree." ...
— Shirley • Charlotte Bronte

... talk—always French. Jarni! ch'dame, n'savons joui d' n'belle s'ree—n'fam-partie d'ombre. Moi j'ai p'du n'belle f'tune, p'rol'd'nneur! You clip your words to nothing. Aren't you coming to ...
— London Pride - Or When the World Was Younger • M. E. Braddon

... Lajooar. Nanotragus hemprichianus. Amoor. Cervicapra lencolis. Teel. Cervicapra ellipsiprymna. Apoolli. Cervicapra arundinaera. Oboor. Alcelaphus bubalis. Poora. Trageiaphus scriptus. Roda. Hippoacayus Bakeri Aboori. Camelopardalis giraffa. Ree. Phacochaerus AEtani (Rupp) (Wart-hog). Kool. Bos caffer. Joobi. Elephas Africanus. Leteb. Rhinoceeros bicornis. Oomooga. Felis leo. Lobohr. Felis leopardes. Quatch. Wild dog, probably (Lycaon pietus). Orara. Jackal. Roodi. Hyana crocata. Laluha. Manis Temminckii. Mooak. ...
— Ismailia • Samuel W. Baker

... form: Republic of Kiribati conventional short form: Kiribati local long form: Republic of Kiribati local short form: Kiribati note: pronounced keer-ree-bahss former: ...
— The 2007 CIA World Factbook • United States

... putty quvick. He lak it leetle run. T'ree, four mile he run—das all." And the Swede was right. After a while the horse settled down to a long, swinging trot. "Look at heem now. I make heem go all tam lak dis. Ven I get my money I haf stable ...
— The Eye of Dread • Payne Erskine

... passing from the north to the south, we meet with the following names, which the smaller letters show to have been intended to indicate subordinate parts of Eendrachtsland: Jac. Rommer Revier [*****], Dirck Hartogs ree, F. Houtmans aebrooleus and Dedells lant. What is more, Keppler's map also exhibits the south-west coast ...
— The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765 • J. E. Heeres

... "My Iowaka died t'ree year ago," he said. "She too loved the wild thing. But them wolf—damn! They drive me out if I can not kill them!" He put fresh fuel into the ...
— Kazan • James Oliver Curwood

... done with it, they pointed toward the sea; indicating most probably thereby, that it had been committed to the deep, or perhaps that it had been carried beyond the bay, to some burying-ground in another part of the country. The chiefs are interred in the morais, or He-ree-erees, with the men sacrificed on the occasion, by the side of them; and we observed that the morai, where the chief had been buried, who, as I have already mentioned, was killed in the cave after so stout a resistance, was hung round ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

... know where dat kitty belongs. Dey all has dose collars. I guess she's one of Bat Jarvis's kitties. He's got twenty-t'ree of dem, and dey all ...
— The Prince and Betty - (American edition) • P. G. Wodehouse

... wanted to speak to you about was this," he continued. "There is going to be a Ree-gatta on the river the day after to-morrow, and I hope you will grant me the favor of your company. The Wissagewissametts are to row with the Chippagowaxems, and it will be the finest race this year. Billy Raum, you ...
— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay



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