The Pioneers: Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive TaleLea & Blanchard, 1841 |
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... passed since this whole territory was a wilderness . Very soon after the establishment of the inde- pendence of the States by the peace of 1783 , the enterprise of their citizens was directed to a deve- lopement 10 THE PIONEERS .
... passed since this whole territory was a wilderness . Very soon after the establishment of the inde- pendence of the States by the peace of 1783 , the enterprise of their citizens was directed to a deve- lopement 10 THE PIONEERS .
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... passed with a rapidity that confused the female , who was unconsciously rejoic- ing in the escape of the buck , as he rather darted like a meteor , than ran across the road before her , when a sharp , quick sound struck her ear , quite ...
... passed with a rapidity that confused the female , who was unconsciously rejoic- ing in the escape of the buck , as he rather darted like a meteor , than ran across the road before her , when a sharp , quick sound struck her ear , quite ...
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... passed near the root of the tree on which it was perched , had alarmed the bird , which was now drawn up near the body of the pine , with a head and neck erect , that formed nearly a straight line with its legs . So soon as the rifle ...
... passed near the root of the tree on which it was perched , had alarmed the bird , which was now drawn up near the body of the pine , with a head and neck erect , that formed nearly a straight line with its legs . So soon as the rifle ...
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... passed without murmuring , in the subordinate grades of the service ; and those soldiers who were stationed in the colonies , felt , when they obtained the command of a company , that they were entitled to receive the greatest deference ...
... passed without murmuring , in the subordinate grades of the service ; and those soldiers who were stationed in the colonies , felt , when they obtained the command of a company , that they were entitled to receive the greatest deference ...
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... " We shall have good reasons for our thanksgiving to- night , on more accounts than one . ” A slightly scornful smile passed over the fea- tures of 4 * THE PIONEERS . 41 The passion seemed the strongest when he was ...
... " We shall have good reasons for our thanksgiving to- night , on more accounts than one . ” A slightly scornful smile passed over the fea- tures of 4 * THE PIONEERS . 41 The passion seemed the strongest when he was ...
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2 ページ - In conformity to the act of 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...
183 ページ - That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
2 ページ - POMEROY, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit : . . "Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence.
125 ページ - 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.
126 ページ - ... every gambol played by the latter, it approached nigher to the dog, the 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.
192 ページ - ... his kind, at a time when his thoughts should be on a better world; and you've driven him to wish that the beasts of the forest, who never feast on the blood of their own families. was his kindred and race; and now, when he has come to see the last brand of his hut before it is melted into ashes, you follow him up at midnight like hungry hounds on the track of a worn-out and dying deer. What more would ye have? for I am here — one to many. I come to mourn, not to fight; and, if it is God's pleasure,...
144 ページ - To his eye, where others saw nothing but a wilderness, towns, manufactories, bridges, canals, mines, and all the other resources of an old country, were constantly presenting themselves, though his good sense suppressed, in some degree, the exhibition of these expectations. As the Sheriff allowed his cousin full time to reflect on what he had heard, the probability of some pecuniary adventure being the connecting link in the chain that brought Oliver Edwards into the cabin of Leather-stocking, appeared...
126 ページ - 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...
125 ページ - 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...
127 ページ - ... saw the form of the old panther in the air, springing twenty feet from the branch of the beech to the back of the mastiff. No words of ours can describe the fury of the conflict that followed. It was a confused struggle on the dried leaves, accompanied by loud and terrific cries.