The Pathfinder, Or The Inland SeaStringer & Townsend, 1851 |
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Pagina 15
... a girl's fancy , Magnet , ” - a term of affection the sailor often used in allusion to his niece's personal attractions , - p no one but a child would think of likening this handful of leaves to a look THE PATHFINDER . 15.
... a girl's fancy , Magnet , ” - a term of affection the sailor often used in allusion to his niece's personal attractions , - p no one but a child would think of likening this handful of leaves to a look THE PATHFINDER . 15.
Pagina 16
... child ? " " And where are your tree - tops , your solemn silence , your fragrant leaves , and your beautiful green , uncle , on the ocean ? " " Tut , Magnet ; if you understood the thing , you would know , that green water is a sailor's ...
... child ? " " And where are your tree - tops , your solemn silence , your fragrant leaves , and your beautiful green , uncle , on the ocean ? " " Tut , Magnet ; if you understood the thing , you would know , that green water is a sailor's ...
Pagina 18
... child , I would have sworn to it ; but , now , I hardly know what to believe . May I take the liberty of asking , Arrowhead , why you fancy that smoke , now , a pale - face's smoke , and not a red - skin's ? " " Wet wood , " returned ...
... child , I would have sworn to it ; but , now , I hardly know what to believe . May I take the liberty of asking , Arrowhead , why you fancy that smoke , now , a pale - face's smoke , and not a red - skin's ? " " Wet wood , " returned ...
Pagina 19
... child , were I to see it in China . " " Ontario , " repeated the Arrowhead , with emphasis , again stretching his hand towards the north - west . Cap looked at the Tuscarora , for the first time since their acquaintance , with something ...
... child , were I to see it in China . " " Ontario , " repeated the Arrowhead , with emphasis , again stretching his hand towards the north - west . Cap looked at the Tuscarora , for the first time since their acquaintance , with something ...
Pagina 20
... child - it is but a cable's length , and we shall return an hour before the sun sets . " With this permission , the girl , whose real name was Mabel Dunham , prepared to be of the party , while the Dew - of - June as the wife of ...
... child - it is but a cable's length , and we shall return an hour before the sun sets . " With this permission , the girl , whose real name was Mabel Dunham , prepared to be of the party , while the Dew - of - June as the wife of ...
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answered Arrowhead believe better block-house boat brother Cap bushes calash canoe Chingachgook command companion concealed countenance cutter daugh dear father Delaware distrust doubt enemy eyes face fancy father fear feelings felt finder fire forest French fresh-water frontier garrison gifts girl hand head heard heart heroine honour hope Indian instant Iroquois island Jasper Eau-douce Jasper Western June Killdeer knew lake land laughing leave Lieutenant Muir look Lundie Mabel Dunham Major Duncan manner Master Cap Master Pathfinder means mind Mingo minutes nature never night Ontario Oswego paddle party passed Path pretty Quarter-Master red-skin returned rienced rifle river sail sailor Sarpent savages scalp Scud seen Serjeant Dunham serjeant's daughter shore smile soldier soon speak spot stood stream tell thing thought Thousand Islands tion trail trees true truth Tuscarora uncle venison vessel warrior wife wind wish woman woods words young
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Pagina 82 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy. Then comes THY glory in the Summer months, With light...
Pagina 209 - Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night...
Pagina 128 - Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors
Pagina 168 - Be all ready to clench it, boys!" cried out Pathfinder, stepping into his friend's tracks the instant they were vacant. "Never mind a new nail; I can see that, though the paint is gone, and what I can see I can hit at a hundred yards, though it were only a mosquito's eye. Be ready to clench!
Pagina 102 - I pray, the vision with thy voice: This is our palace, — yonder is thy throne; Speak, and the floor thou tread'st on will rejoice. Not to appal me have the gods bestowed This precious boon; and blest a sad abode.
Pagina 112 - Where the rain never fell, and the wind never blew ; But it seemed as the harp of the sky had rung, And the airs of heaven played round her tongue, When she spake of the lovely forms she had seen, And a land where sin had never been, — A land of love and a land of light, Withouten sun or moon or night ; Where the river swa'da living stream, And the light a pure celestial beam : The land of vision it would seem, A still, an everlasting dream.
Pagina 40 - Before these fields were shorn and tilled, Full to the brim our rivers flowed ; The melody of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood ; 216 AN INDIAN AT THE BURIAL-PLACE, ETC. And torrents dashed and rivulets played, And fountains spouted in the shade.
Pagina 163 - The respect for Pathfinder's skill and for his quickness and accuracy of sight [the italics are mine] was so profound and general, that the instant he made this declaration the spectators began to distrust their own opinions, and a dozen rushed to the target in order to ascertain the fact. There, sure enough, it was found that the Quartermaster's bullet had gone through the hole made by Jasper's...