The Pioneers: Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive TaleLea & Blanchard, 1841 |
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... father . Only forty years have 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 ...
... father . Only forty years have 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 ...
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... father and daughter ( for such was the connexion between the travellers ) were too much occupied with their different reflections to break the stillness , that received little or no interruption from the easy gliding of the sleigh , by ...
... father and daughter ( for such was the connexion between the travellers ) were too much occupied with their different reflections to break the stillness , that received little or no interruption from the easy gliding of the sleigh , by ...
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... father's gun , but still sufficiently distinct to be known as the concussion produced by fire - arms . At the same instant that she heard this unexpected report , the buck sprang from the snow , to a great height 16 THE PIONEERS .
... father's gun , but still sufficiently distinct to be known as the concussion produced by fire - arms . At the same instant that she heard this unexpected report , the buck sprang from the snow , to a great height 16 THE PIONEERS .
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... father so much , as to have him think that he leaves a fellow - creature in this wilderness , whom his own hand has ... father's feelings , we know not , but the haughty distance of the young man's manner was sensibly softened by this ...
... father so much , as to have him think that he leaves a fellow - creature in this wilderness , whom his own hand has ... father's feelings , we know not , but the haughty distance of the young man's manner was sensibly softened by this ...
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... speaking , she was too much employed in helping her father to remove certain articles of their baggage to hear him . Unable to resist the kind urgency of the 3 VOL . I. travellers any longer , the youth , though still with THE PIONEERS .
... speaking , she was too much employed in helping her father to remove certain articles of their baggage to hear him . Unable to resist the kind urgency of the 3 VOL . I. travellers any longer , the youth , though still with THE PIONEERS .
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Page 2 - 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...
Page 183 - 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.
Page 2 - 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.
Page 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.
Page 126 - ... 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.
Page 192 - ... 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,...
Page 144 - 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 127 - ... 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.