 There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree-tops where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness. Beneath one of them a line of warriors issued from the woods and advanced...  Cooper's Works - Page 342by James Fenimore Cooper - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Novelist - 1839 - 570 pages
...at first by the uproar, Hey ward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit those bright openings among the tree tops where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness. Beneath one... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 458 pages
...at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens...warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1850 - 452 pages
...at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens...warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 526 pages
...at first, by the uproar, Hey ward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens, to exhibit those bright openings amorlg the tree-tops, where different paths left the clearing to enter the depths of the wilderness.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 456 pages
...at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens...warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1891 - 682 pages
...by the uproar, Hey ward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There j'et lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit...warriors issued from the woods and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared were suspended... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 462 pages
...solution by thi' *X!ne that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibil Lhose bright openings among the tree-tops, where different...warriors issued from the woods, and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterwards appeared, were suspended... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Anthologies - 1896 - 452 pages
...the most renowned of the Parisian restaurants. RUNNING THE GAUNTLET From 'The Last of the Mohicans' THERE yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens...dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterward appeared, were suspended several human scalps. The startling sounds that Duncan had heard... | |
 | Literature - 1898 - 264 pages
...Coffin can blow." RUNNING THE GAUNTLET From " The Last of the Mohicans" JAMES FENIMORE COOPER SPHERE yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens to exhibit...dwellings. One in front bore a short pole, on which, as it afterward appeared, were suspended seven human .scalps. The startling sounds that Duncan had heard... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1898 - 568 pages
...at first, by the uproar, Heyward was soon enabled to find its solution by the scene that followed. There yet lingered sufficient light in the heavens...wilderness. Beneath one of them a line of warriors 5 issued from the woods, and advanced slowly towards the dwellings. One in front bore a short pole,... | |
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