 | Novelist - 1839 - 746 pages
...victims. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy, spectator of all the:e proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself, until he saw the...into the sports. " This comes of settling a country I" he said — " here have T known the pigeons to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 828 pages
...victims. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the introduction of the swivel into the sports. 1 " This comes of settling a country !" he said — " here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 622 pages
...notice. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the introduction of the swivel into the sports. So prodigious was the number of the birds, that the scattering fire of the guns, with the hurling of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 512 pages
...victims. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the...nobody to skear or to hurt them. I loved to see them cotne into the woods, fur they were company to a body ; hurting nothing ; being, as it was, as harmless... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 532 pages
...victims. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the...introduction of the swivel into the sports. " This conies of settling a country !" he said ; " here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty long years,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1864 - 684 pages
...victims. Leather-stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the...sports. " This comes of settling a country !" he said — . f "here have 1 known the pigeons to fly for forty long years, and, till you made your clearings,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1876 - 536 pages
...victims. Leather- Stocking was a silent, but uneasy spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw the...nobody to skear or to hurt them. I loved to see them in the woods, for they were company to a body ; hurting nothing ; being, as it was, as harmless as... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1388 pages
...spectator of all these proceedings, but was able to keep his sentiments to himself until he saw die introduction of the swivel into the sports. "This...was nobody to skear or to hurt them. I loved to see diem come into die woods, for diey were company to a body; hurting nothing; being, as it was, as harmless... | |
 | Robert V. Hine, John Mack Faragher - History - 2000 - 634 pages
...words in disgust, directing them at Judge Marmaduke Temple, the leader of this backwoods community. "Here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty long...for they were company to a body, hurting nothing." It's wicked, he murmurs, wicked. Moved by the old man's words, the judge responds. "I begin to think... | |
 | Betsy McCully - History - 2007 - 204 pages
...flocks, it is too much for Leather-stocking. He indignantly cries out: "This comes of settling a country! Here have I known the pigeons to fly for forty long...till you made your clearings, there was nobody to scare or to hurt Fig. 9.1. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, "Passenger Pigeons." (From Elon Howard Eaton, Birds... | |
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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... 