The Pathfinder or, the Inland seaAegitas, 19. 8. 2016 - Počet stran: 415 The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great Lakes having been mentioned to a Publisher, the latter obtained something like a pledge from the Author to carry out the design at some future day, which pledge is now tardily and imperfectly redeemed. |
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... woods. Philosophy has not yet determined the nature of the power that so often lays desolate spots of this description; some ascribing it to the whirlwinds which produce waterspouts on the ocean, while others again impute it to sudden ...
... woods. Philosophy has not yet determined the nature of the power that so often lays desolate spots of this description; some ascribing it to the whirlwinds which produce waterspouts on the ocean, while others again impute it to sudden ...
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... woods, and divers others which resembled the ignoble and vulgar, thrown by circumstances into the presence of the stately and great. Here and there, too, the tall straight trunk of the pine pierced the vast field, rising high above it ...
... woods, and divers others which resembled the ignoble and vulgar, thrown by circumstances into the presence of the stately and great. Here and there, too, the tall straight trunk of the pine pierced the vast field, rising high above it ...
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... wood" than with her uncle's arguments; "yonder is a smoke curling over the tops of the trees—can it come from a house?" "Ay, ay; there is a look of humanity in that smoke," returned the old seaman, "which is worth a thousand trees. I ...
... wood" than with her uncle's arguments; "yonder is a smoke curling over the tops of the trees—can it come from a house?" "Ay, ay; there is a look of humanity in that smoke," returned the old seaman, "which is worth a thousand trees. I ...
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... 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 the warrior , with.
... 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 the warrior , with.
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Cooper, James. " Wet wood , " returned the warrior , with the calmness with which the pedagogue might point out an arithmetical demonstration to his puzzled pupil . " Much wet - much smoke ; much water - black smoke . " " But , begging ...
Cooper, James. " Wet wood , " returned the warrior , with the calmness with which the pedagogue might point out an arithmetical demonstration to his puzzled pupil . " Much wet - much smoke ; much water - black smoke . " " But , begging ...
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