Unit 1: Vocabulary from Readings 1

She told them that they must leave their present abode and go down to the earth and dwell there.

When the hail and thunder and cyclones hit the petrified wood and the mud columns which stuck up out of the mud, they were broken into pieces.

Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the warp be the white light of morning,
May the weft be the red light of evening,
May the fringes be the falling rain,
May the border be the standing rainbow.

We feigned to be angry still, so as to keep them in suspense, and then a singular thing happened.

We feigned to be angry still, so as to keep them in suspense, and then a singular thing happened.

They besought us not to be angry nor to procure the death of any more of their number, for they were convinced that we killed them by merely thinking of it.

Here we remained one day, and left on the next, taking them with us to other permanent houses, where they subsisted on the same food also, and thence on we found a new custom.

While the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered by a daily proportion of biscuit which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or exchange with us for money, sassafras, or furs.

Had we been as free from all sins as gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints, but our President would never have been admitted for engrossing to his private, oatmeal, sack, oil, aqua vitae, beef, eggs, or what not but the kettle...

With this lodging and diet, our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world.

When this news came to Jamestown, much was their sorrow for his loss, few expecting what ensued.

...Pocahontas, the King's dearest daughter, when no entreaty could prevail, got his head in her arms and laid her own upon his to save him from death...

Not long after, from behind a mat that divided the house, was made the most dolefulest noise he ever heard...

But almighty God (by His divine providence) had mollified the hearts of those stern barbarians with compassion.