The Works of J. Fenimore Cooper. ...: The pilot (1849George P. Putnam, 1850 |
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... Heyward . “ If enemies have reached the portage at all , a thing by no means probable , as our scouts are abroad , they will surely be found skirting the column , where scalps abound the most . The route of the detachment is known ...
... Heyward . “ If enemies have reached the portage at all , a thing by no means probable , as our scouts are abroad , they will surely be found skirting the column , where scalps abound the most . The route of the detachment is known ...
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... Heyward , gradually relaxed , and his lips curled into a slight smile , as he regarded the stranger . Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment ; and even the dark thoughtful eye of Cora lighted with a humor that , it ...
... Heyward , gradually relaxed , and his lips curled into a slight smile , as he regarded the stranger . Alice made no very powerful effort to control her merriment ; and even the dark thoughtful eye of Cora lighted with a humor that , it ...
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... Heyward , who , in his turn , spoke to the stranger ; at once interrupting , and , for the time , closing his musical efforts . 66 ' Though we are not in danger , common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as ...
... Heyward , who , in his turn , spoke to the stranger ; at once interrupting , and , for the time , closing his musical efforts . 66 ' Though we are not in danger , common prudence would teach us to journey through this wilderness in as ...
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... Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness . The cavalcade had not long passed , before the branches of the bushes that formed the thicket were cautiously moved asunder ...
... Heyward was mistaken only in suffering his youthful and generous pride to suppress his active watchfulness . The cavalcade had not long passed , before the branches of the bushes that formed the thicket were cautiously moved asunder ...
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... Heyward and his confiding companions to penetrate still deeper into a forest that contained such treacherous inmates , we must use an author's privilege , and shift the scene a few miles to the westward of the place where we have last ...
... Heyward and his confiding companions to penetrate still deeper into a forest that contained such treacherous inmates , we must use an author's privilege , and shift the scene a few miles to the westward of the place where we have last ...
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Alice answered appeared arms beast believe betrayed blood bosom Canada canoe captive cavern chief Chingachgook companions concealed Cora countenance cunning danger dark David deer Delawares distance drew Duncan ears encampment enemy exclaimed eyes father feet fell fierce fire followed footsteps forest Fort Edward French gaze glance grave hand Hawk-eye head heard Horican Huron Indian instant interrupted Iroquois knew knife lake language leave Lenape Lenni Lenape light listened lodge longue Carabine look Magua Major Heyward Manitto manner Maquas Mingo moccasins Mohawks Montcalm morocco Munro Narraganset native nature never party passed path pause psalmody Renard returned the scout rifle rock Sagamore savage scalp scene seated seemed seen side silent sisters soon sounds speak spirit spoke spot stood Subtil Tamenund tomahawk trail trees tribe turned Uncas uttered voice warrior wigwam woods woodsman words Wyandots yell young Mohican youth
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Страница 183 - Father! father!" exclaimed a piercing cry from out the mist; "it is I! Alice! thy own Elsie! spare, O! save your daughters!" "Hold!" shouted the former speaker, in the awful tones of parental agony, the sound reaching even to the woods, and rolling back in solemn echo. " 'Tis she! God has restored me my children! Throw open the sallyport; to the field, 60ths, to the field! pull not a trigger, lest ye kill my lambs! Drive off these dogs of France with your steel!
Страница 202 - There it was my lot to form a connexion with one who in time became my wife, and the mother of Cora, She was the daughter of a gentleman of those isles, by a lady whose misfortune it was, if you will...
Страница 412 - Nor vows unpaid, nor slighted sacrifice, But he, our chief, provoked the raging pest, Apollo's vengeance for his injured priest, Nor will the god's awaken'd fury cease, But plagues shall spread, and funeral fires increase, Till the great king, without a ransom paid, To her own Chrysa send the black-eyed maid. Perhaps, with added sacrifice and prayer, The priest may pardon, and the god may spare.
Страница 11 - A wide and apparently an impervious boundary of forests severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or...