Cooper's Works, Volume 10

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Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - American literature

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Page 355 - Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; When the morning stars sang together, and all the Sons of God shouted for joy?
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Page 243 - Away aloft, and hand your courses,' he continued, in a shout ; ' roll them up, cheerily ; in with them, boys, cheerily ; in !' " The conscious seamen took their impulses from the tones of their commander. In a moment, twenty dark forms were...
Page 251 - ... own weight and the renewed violence of the gusts. At this critical instant while the seamen aloft were still gazing in the direction in which the little cloud of canvas had disappeared, a lanyard of the lower rigging parted with a crack that even reached the ears of Wilder. "Lie down!" he shouted fearfully through his trumpet; "down by the backstays; down for your lives; every man of you, down!

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