Pemulwuy was about thirty and had a wife and two children, a boy and a girl. ... Many of the women were raped and were soon the bearers of white children. ... Along the banks of the Parramatta River were the English soldiers, lined and ready for battle. ... His arms and legs were tied with rope and he was dragged several times through a fire before he was dragged to a river, thrown in then shot. ...
These children did not always go peacefully to the new life of an indentured servant or apprentice. Children were lured to go aboard a ship and the results had to be heartbreaking to say the least. ... Within the Quaker society, children were treated as valuable members of the family. When children were placed in other families, they were cared for as members of that family. ... While the group was isolated in the Delaware River Valley, they had considerable influence in the government of Pennsylvania from 1681 to the 1750s. ...
"My friend you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie; Dulche et Decorum est Pro patria mori- it is sweet and right to die for ones country. ... Concrete Images- Euphemistic Images of England, its geography," Washed by the rivers, blest by the sons of home," "And laughter learnt of friends and happiness, "under an English heaven" Rupert Brooke. ...
Meaning that if they could live their days being worry free like children and everything he is offering could be true and real, she would be happy to be his one and only. ... To the promises of living in a beautiful, serene and peaceful environment she emphasizes that time will drive the flocks away, winter will soon settle in and turn the quietly meandering river into a raging monster. ... "coral clasps"[Marlowe 18] and "river's rage" [Raleigh 6]) that it is quite easy for the reader to form a mental picture of what the speaker is trying to say. ...
This group began as a common language in the Elbe river region about 3,000 years ago. ... Celtic words that that also survived were mainly those that names places and rivers, Devon, Kent, Trent, Avon, Thames. ... Only a very few words retained their Germanic plurals (men, oxen, teeth, children). ...
They arrived at the Chesapeake Bay area, came up river about 40 miles made landfall and founded Jamestown, the first of the British Colonies. ... They found that their children and values were being corrupted by the Dutch so in September of 1620 about 100 of them climbed aboard the Mayflower and headed for the New World. ...
After the Revolution of 1688, in which the final overthrow of James II took place at the Boyne River, the English feared Ireland asa source of danger to the post-revolutionary arrangements in England. ... Catholic teachers were to teach, and Catholic parents were to send children overseas to be educated in Catholic Schools. ...
