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" It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof to God... "
Uncas and Miantonomoh: A Historical Discourse, Delivered at Norwich, (Conn ... - Page 67
by William Leete Stone - 1842 - 209 pages
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New-England's Memorial

Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1669 - 562 pages
...dispatched, and very few escaped. The number they thus destroyed, was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same ; and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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New-England's Memorial

Nathaniel Morton - Massachusetts - 1826 - 498 pages
...dispatched and very few escaped. The number they thus destroyed: was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same; and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Collections, Volume 3

1835 - 348 pages
...sword, some hewed to pieces, some run through with rapiers, &c. The number thus destroyed was about 400. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and the scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society: Potter, E.R ..., Volume 3

Local history - 1835 - 484 pages
...sword, some hewed to pieces, some run through with rapiers, &c. The number thus destroyed was about 400. At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus filing in the fire and the streams of blood quenching the same, and horrible was the stink and the...
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Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, Volume 1

Catharine Maria Sedgwick - Indians of North America - 1842 - 276 pages
...the history of the times, where we are told " the number destroyed was about four hundred ;" and " it was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in...fire, and the streams of blood quenching the same, and the horrible scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volume 2

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1847 - 396 pages
...despatched and very few escaped. The number they thus destroyed was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time, it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same ; and horrible was the stench and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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Collections of the Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1847 - 406 pages
...despatched and very few escaped. The number they thus destroyed was conceived to be above four hundred. At this time, it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same ; and horrible was the stench and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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The Indian Races of North and South America: Comprising an Account of the ...

Charles De Wolf Brownell - Indians of North America - 1853 - 732 pages
...times cannot be better portrayed than by citing the description of this tragedy given by Morton : " At this time it was a fearful sight to see them thus...of blood quenching the same; and horrible was the stink and^cent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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The Discoverers, Pioneers, and Settlers of North and South America from the ...

Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1853 - 734 pages
...that the number of the victims was nearer eight hundred. " It was a fearful sight," says old Morton, " to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams...of blood quenching the same; and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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The Pioneer Heroes of the New World: From the Earliest Period (982) to the ...

Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1855 - 738 pages
...that the number of the victims was nearer eight hundred. " It was a fearful sight," says old Morton, " to see them thus frying in the fire, and the streams...of blood quenching the same; and horrible was the stink and scent thereof; but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave the praise thereof...
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