July, 1758, the frogs of an artificial pond three miles square, and about five miles from Windham, finding the water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic River. They were under the necessity of taking... The Echo: With Other Poems - Page 321by Richard Alsop, Theodore Dwight - 1807 - 331 pagesFull view - About this book
| Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards W innomantic river. They were under the neceffity of taking the road» and going through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic river. They were under the neceffity of taking the road, and going through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide... | |
| Samuel Peters - Connecticut - 1782 - 462 pages
...of taking the road and go^ ing through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide .for four miles in length, and were for feveral hours pafling through the town, unufually... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1810 - 874 pages
...water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic rivet. They were under the necessity of taking the road and...without number. They filled a road forty yards wide fur four miles in length, and were for several hours passing through the town unusually clamorous.... | |
| Thousand notable things - 1822 - 604 pages
...finding the water -dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic river. They were under the necessity of taking the road, and going through the towu, which they entered •about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders and the pipers followed.... | |
| Samuel Peters - Connecticut - 1829 - 440 pages
...finding the water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic river. They were under the necessity of taking the...through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1855 - 718 pages
...finding the water dried up, left the place in a bodv, and marched, or rather hopped towards Winnomantic river. They were under the necessity of taking the...through the town, which they entered about midnight The bull frogs were the leaders, und the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 294 pages
...necessity of taking the roud ana going through the town, which they entered about midnight. The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide for four miles in length, and were for several hours in passing through the town, unusually... | |
| 1856 - 386 pages
...finding the water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped, towards Winnomantic river. They were under the necessity of taking the...without number. They filled a road forty yards wide for four,miles in length, and were for several hours passing through the town, unusually clamorous. The... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1856 - 704 pages
...finding the water dried up, left the place in a body, and marched, or rather hopped towards Winnomantic river. They were under the necessity of taking the...through the town, which they entered about midnight The bull frogs were the leaders, and the pipers followed without number. They filled a road 40 yards wide... | |
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