The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757G. P. Putnam, 1850 - 443 من الصفحات |
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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 Munro Narraganset native nature never Oneida 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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الصفحة 19 - He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha! And he smelleth the battle afar off, The thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
الصفحة 429 - They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered — but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah...
الصفحة 63 - The sire turns o'er wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride: His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God!
الصفحة 30 - Tis the six-and-twentieth edition, promulgated at Boston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, 'The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Metre, for the Use, Edification, and Comfort of the Saints, in Public and Private, especially in New England.
الصفحة 442 - Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these two sturdy and intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.
الصفحة 202 - ... said the old man, proudly, " to be descended, remotely, from that unfortunate class who are so basely enslaved to administer to the wants of a luxurious people. Ay, sir, that is a curse entailed on Scotland by her unnatural union with a foreign and trading people.
الصفحة 183 - Cooper's word-sense was singularly dull. When a person has a poor ear for music he will flat and sharp right along without knowing it. He keeps near the tune, but it is not the tune. When a person has a poor ear for words, the result is a literary flatting and sharping; you perceive what he is intending...
الصفحة 38 - arth is level; but on the large scale it is round. In this manner, pools and ponds, and even the great freshwater...
الصفحة 37 - Chingachgook, what passed, according to the traditions of the red men, when our fathers first met ? " A silence of a minute succeeded, during which the Indian sat mute; then, full of the dignity of his office, he commenced his brief tale, with a solemnity that served to heighten its appearance of truth. "Listen, Hawkeye, and your ear shall drink no lie. 'Tis what my fathers have said, and what the Mohicans have done.
الصفحة 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!