The Prairie: A TaleG. Routlege, 1855 - 468 páginas |
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Abiram already animal answered appeared arth Asinus band Battius beast bee-hunter big-knives brave brother buffalo Captain chief colour companion countenance cried Dahcotah danger dark distance Doctor ears earth Ellen encampment enemies Esther exclaimed eyes father favour girl glance grass hand Hard-Heart head heard heavens Hector horse hound hunter Indian Inez instant interrupted Ishmael Bush Kentucky listened lodge look Lord Loups Mahtoree manner matter mind Monsieur Violet naturalist nature never nigh Obed old trapper pale-face panion party passed Pawnee Percival Keene plain prairie quadruped reason red-skin returned the trapper rifle river rock savage seemed seen silent Siouxes skin sleep speak spot squatter stood stranger tell tent Teton thicket thought tion tomahawk tribe turned Uncas venison voice warrior Weucha whole wife wild woman words yonder young youth دو وو
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Página 8 - Rich. Up with my tent! here will I lie to-night; But where to-morrow? Well, all's one for that.
Página 46 - The gradations of society, from that state which is called refined to that which approaches as near barbarity as connexion with an intelligent people will readily allow, are to be traced from the bosom of the States, where wealth, luxury, and the arts are beginning to seat themselves, to those distant and ever-receding borders which mark the skirts and announce the approach of the nation, as moving mists precede the signs of the day.
Página 193 - But is this not fatal?" cried the amazed Middleton; "are you not bringing the enemy nigher to us instead of avoiding it?" "Do you scorch so easily? your gran'ther had a tougher skin. But we shall live to see; we shall all live to see.
Página 155 - There go ten thousand oxen in one drove, without keeper or master, except Him who made them and gave them these open plains for their pasture! Ay, it is here that man may see the proofs of his wantonness and folly! Can the proudest governor in all the States go into his fields and slaughter a nobler bullock than is here offered to the meanest...
Página 282 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Página 194 - Old trapper," cried Paul, thrusting his fingers through his shaggy locks, "I have lined many a loaded bee into his hole, and know something of the nature of the woods, but this is robbing a hornet of his sting without touching the insect !"
Página 193 - I only knew how to circumvent the cunning of the Tetons, as I know how to cheat the fire of its prey, there would be nothing needed but thanks to the Lord for our deliverance. Do you call this a fire ? If you had seen what I have witnessed in the Eastern hills, when mighty mountains were like the furnace of a smith, you would have known what it was to fear the flames, and to be thankful that you were spared...
Página 309 - ... awe. Suddenly, while musing on the remarkable position in which he was placed, Middleton felt the hand which he held grasp his own with incredible power, and the old man, supported on either side by his friends, rose upright to his feet. For a moment he looked about him, as if to invite all in...
Página 306 - Middleton took one of the meager hands of the trapper and struggling to command his voice, he succeeded in announcing his presence. The old man listened like one whose thoughts were dwelling on a very different subject; but when the other had succeeded in making him understand that he was present, an expression of joyful recognition passed over his faded features. "I hope you have not so soon forgotten those whom you so materially served!" Middleton concluded. "It would pain me to think my hold on...