The Prairie: A Tale

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Appleton, 1875 - 485페이지
 

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477 페이지 - ... took a friendly interest. During the whole of that solemn and anxious period each individual of the tribe kept his place, in the most selfrestrained patience. When the old man spoke, all bent their heads to listen ; and when his words were uttered, they seemed to ponder on their wisdom and usefulness. As the flame drew nigher to the socket his voice was hushed, and there were moments when his attendants doubted whether he still belonged to the living.
14 페이지 - The earth was not unlike the ocean, when its restless waters are heaving heavily, after the agitation and fury of the tempest have begun to lessen. There was the same waving and regular surface, the same absence of foreign objects, and the same boundless extent to the view.
476 페이지 - Not so, not so, Captain. Let me sleep where I have lived — beyond the din of the settlements ! Still I see no need why the grave of an honest man should be hid, like a Red-skin in his ambushment.
308 페이지 - 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 !"
171 페이지 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.
249 페이지 - Levelling his piece at the foremost hull, with an agility that would have done credit to his youth, he fired. The animal received the bullet on the matted hair between his horns, and fell to his knees : but shaking his head he instantly arose, the very shock seeming to increase his exertions. There was now no longer time to hesitate. Throwing down his rifle, the trapper stretched forth his arms, and advanced from the cover with naked hands, directly towards the rushing column of the beasts.
474 페이지 - I find it a little painful to give up forever the use of the rifle, and the comforts of the chase. But then the fault has been my own, seeing that it could not have been His. Ay, Hector...
306 페이지 - ... bees lie around the straw after the hive has been smoked for its honey. You may hear the fire begin to roar already, and I know by experience, that when the flame once gets fairly into the prairie grass, it is no sloth that can outrun it.
96 페이지 - The Teton, and the Pawnee, and the Konza, and men of a dozen other tribes, claim to own these naked fields." "Natur' gives them the lie in their teeth. The air, the water, and the ground, are free gifts to man, and no one has the power to portion them out in parcels. Man must drink, and breathe, and walk,—and therefore each has a right to his share of 'arth.
308 페이지 - The experience of the trapper was in the right. As the fire gained strength and heat, it began to spread on three sides, dying of itself on the fourth for want of aliment. As it increased, and the sullen roaring announced its power, it cleared everything before it, leaving the black and smoking soil far more naked than if the scythe had swept the place. The situation of the fugitives. would have still been hazardous had not the area en larged as the flame encircled them.

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