The hardy
colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.
Effingham had, from the commencement of the disputes between the
colonists and the crown, warmly maintained what he believed to be the just prerogatives of his prince; while, on the other hand, the clear head and independent mind of Temple had induced him to espouse the cause of the people.
The departure of the Indians to their winter quarters gradually rendered provisions scanty, and obliged the
colonists to send out foraging expeditions in the Dolly.
Beach gave his check for the money and so the troubles of the Jaffa
colonists were at an end.
And, too, these legends always held forth the hope that some day that nameless continent from which their race had sprung, would rise once more out of the sea and with slaves at the long sweeps would send her carven, gold-picked galleys forth to succor the long-exiled
colonists.
For the American
colonists who had presumed to rebel against their king his bitterness was sometimes almost frenzied; he characterized them as
Beyond its foaming base lay the pretty villages of the Japanese
colonists and smiling valleys which penetrated deep into the interior.
I had to apologize to her for the painful prejudices and violent language of "these
colonists," but the old soul was easily mollified.
Time was necessary to blend the numerous and affluent
colonists of the lower province with their new compatriots; but the thinner and more humble population above, was almost immediately swallowed in the vortex which attended the tide of instant emigration.
Among his other acts of folly Captain Kirke took a woman passenger on board at that place -- not a young woman by any means -- the elderly widow of a rich
colonist.
Impey Barbicane was a man of forty years of age, calm, cold, austere; of a singularly serious and self-contained demeanor, punctual as a chronometer, of imperturbable temper and immovable character; by no means chivalrous, yet adventurous withal, and always bringing practical ideas to bear upon the very rashest enterprises; an essentially New Englander, a Northern
colonist, a descendant of the old anti-Stuart Roundheads, and the implacable enemy of the gentlemen of the South, those ancient cavaliers of the mother country.
This is a mere bribe for the
colonists to secure their permanent support for the Israeli government," he told Gulf News.
