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  • Memeskia rose and told the Ottawas to take this message to their French master: “Fathers, we have made a road to the sun-rising, and have been taken by the hand by our brothers the English, the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawnees, and Wyandots . . . and as you threaten us with war in the spring, we tell you that we are ready to receive you.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Memeskia rose and told the Ottawas to take this message to their French master: “Fathers, we have made a road to the sun-rising, and have been taken by the hand by our brothers the English, the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawnees, and Wyandots . . . and as you threaten us with war in the spring, we tell you that we are ready to receive you.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Memeskia rose and told the Ottawas to take this message to their French master: “Fathers, we have made a road to the sun-rising, and have been taken by the hand by our brothers the English, the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawnees, and Wyandots . . . and as you threaten us with war in the spring, we tell you that we are ready to receive you.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Memeskia rose and told the Ottawas to take this message to their French master: “Fathers, we have made a road to the sun-rising, and have been taken by the hand by our brothers the English, the Six Nations, the Delawares, Shawnees, and Wyandots . . . and as you threaten us with war in the spring, we tell you that we are ready to receive you.”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • No man hath leave to gather thereof tofore the sun-rising, nor after the sun going down.

    Archive 2008-07-01 2008

  • No man hath leave to gather thereof tofore the sun-rising, nor after the sun going down.

    Happy Bastille Day 2008

  • And in that plain, every day at the sun-rising, begin to grow small trees, and they grow till mid-day, bearing fruit; but no man dare take of that fruit, for it is a thing of faerie.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • The calm continued till sun-rising, when the wind likewise arose, but unluckily for us it came from a wrong quarter; it was S.S.E., which is that very wind which Juno would have solicited of Aeolus, had Gneas been in our latitude bound for

    The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon 2004

  • Choeac, and the third hour after sunset, at which time there was a total eclipse of the sun; that he was born the twenty-first day of the month Thoth, about sun-rising; and that the first stone of Rome was laid by him the ninth day of the month Pharmuthi, between the second and third hour.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Observed the variation of the compass by amp., at sun-rising, to be 7. 47.

    Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales 2003

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