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  • Wonder-working sap seemed to spout into the air through every minute branch.

    A Daughter of the Middle Border Hamlin Garland 1900

  • It is most probable that Anne Bradstreet had been temporarily separated from her husband, as Johnson in his “Wonder-working Providence,” writes, that after the arrival at Salem, “the lady Arrabella and some other godly women aboad at Salem, but their husbands continued at Charles Town, both for the settling the Civill Government and gathering another Church of Christ.”

    Anne Bradstreet and Her Time Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918 1890

  • It is to be doubted whether wealthy men ever lived in them in New England, but Johnson, in his _Wonder-working Providence_, written in 1645, tells of the occasional use of these "smoaky homes."

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Johnson in his _Wonder-working Providence_ tells with pride that by 1654 New

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • They were justly rebuked for their indifference and dislike by Johnson in his _Wonder-working Providence_, who called the pumpkin "a fruit which the Lord fed his people with till corn and cattle increased"; and another pumpkin-lover referred to "the times wherein old Pompion was a saint."

    Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • Let us here read what old Johnson says of these meadows in his "Wonder-working Providence," which gives the account of New England from 1628 to 1652, and see how matters looked to him.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • Mr. Ticknor in his History of Spanish Literature, 1863, volume ii.p. 369, says that the Wonder-working Magician is founded on "the same legend on which Milman has founded his 'Martyr of Antioch.'"

    The Purgatory of St. Patrick Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640

  • Mr. Ticknor in his History of Spanish Literature, 1863, volume ii.p. 369, says that the Wonder-working Magician is founded on "the same legend on which Milman has founded his 'Martyr of Antioch.'"

    The Wonder-Working Magician Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640

  • Mr. Ticknor in his History of Spanish Literature, 1863, volume ii.p. 369, says that the Wonder-working Magician is founded on "the same legend on which Milman has founded his 'Martyr of Antioch.'"

    Life Is a Dream Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640

  • Wonder-working Power; '' His Child-likeness; '' The Naturalness of His

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

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