The Pioneers, Or the Sources of the Susquehanna: A Descriptive Tale, Volume 2Carey, Lea and Carey, 1827 |
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Pagina 22
... feet in every direction , was apparently placed there as a beacon , to warn the traveller that it was the centre of the highway . Into one of these roads the active Sheriff led the way , first striking out of the footpath , by which ...
... feet in every direction , was apparently placed there as a beacon , to warn the traveller that it was the centre of the highway . Into one of these roads the active Sheriff led the way , first striking out of the footpath , by which ...
Pagina 39
... feet in length , to the common horseman's pistol , was to be seen in the hands of the men and boys ; while bows and arrows , some made of the simple stick of a walnut sapling , and others in a rude imitation of the ancient cross - bows ...
... feet in length , to the common horseman's pistol , was to be seen in the hands of the men and boys ; while bows and arrows , some made of the simple stick of a walnut sapling , and others in a rude imitation of the ancient cross - bows ...
Pagina 40
... feet into the air , in a vain effort to escape the attacks of man . Arrows , and missiles of every kind , were seen in the midst of the flocks ; and so numerous were the birds , and so low did they take their flight , that even long ...
... feet into the air , in a vain effort to escape the attacks of man . Arrows , and missiles of every kind , were seen in the midst of the flocks ; and so numerous were the birds , and so low did they take their flight , that even long ...
Pagina 44
... feet , and in a few minutes the " slut " brought out the bird , still alive . The wonderful exploit of Leather - stocking was noised through the field with great rapidity , and the sportsmen gathered in to learn the truth of the report ...
... feet , and in a few minutes the " slut " brought out the bird , still alive . The wonderful exploit of Leather - stocking was noised through the field with great rapidity , and the sportsmen gathered in to learn the truth of the report ...
Pagina 53
... feet , and even more . " " Two hundred or two thousand , it's all the same thing , " cried Benjamin , with an air which manifested that he was not easily to be bullied out of his opinion , on a subject like the present --- " Haven't I ...
... feet , and even more . " " Two hundred or two thousand , it's all the same thing , " cried Benjamin , with an air which manifested that he was not easily to be bullied out of his opinion , on a subject like the present --- " Haven't I ...
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Pagina 2 - Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the...
Pagina 2 - District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit : " THE CHILD'S BOTANY," In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, " An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Pagina 119 - Ask me not what the maiden feels, Left in that dreadful hour alone: Perchance her reason stoops or reels; Perchance a courage, not her own, Braces her mind to desperate tone. The scattered van of England wheels; She only said, as loud in air The tumult roared, "Is Wilton there?" They fly! or maddened by despair Fight but to die — "Is Wilton there?
Pagina 125 - What does he see?" said Elizabeth: "there must be some animal in sight." Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion.
Pagina 42 - ... company to a body ; hurting nothing ; being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake. But now it gives me sore thoughts when I hear the frighty things whizzing through the air, for I know it's only a motion to bring out all the brats in the village.
Pagina 126 - ... growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment, until the younger beast, overleaping its intended bound, fell directly before the mastiff. There was a moment of fearful cries and struggles ; but they ended almost as soon as commenced, by the cub appearing in the air, hurled from the jaws of Brave, with a violence that sent it against a tree so forcibly as to render it completely senseless.
Pagina 126 - All this time, Brave stood firm and undaunted, his short tail erect, his body drawn backward on its haunches, and his eyes following the movements of both dam and cub. At every gambol played by the latter, it approached nigher to the dog, the growling of the three becoming more horrid at each moment...
Pagina 42 - This comes of settling a country !" he said ; " here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your clearings, there was nobody to skear or to hurt them. I loved to see them come...
Pagina 128 - Elizabeth now lay wholly at the mercy of the beast. There is said to be something in the front of the image of the Maker, that daunts the hearts of the inferior beings of his creation ; and it would seem that some such power, in the present instance, suspended the threatened blow. The eyes of the monster and the kneeling maiden met, for an instant, when the former stooped to examine her fallen foe ; next to scent her luckless cub. From the latter examination...
Pagina 125 - Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant...