Cooper's Novels, المجلد 12Stringer and Townsend, 1852 |
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Alice answered appeared arms beast blood bosom breath calm Canada canoe captive cavern chief Chingachgook colour companions concealed Cora countenance cunning danger dark David deep deer Delawares drew Duncan ears enemy exclaimed eyes father favour feet fell fierce fire followed forest Fort Edward gaze glance grave hand Hawk-eye head heard Horican Huron Indian instant instantly Iroquois knew knife lake leave Lenape Lenni Lenape light listened lodge look Magua maiden Major Heyward Manitto manner ment Mingo moccasins Mohawks Montcalm Munro Narragansets native nature never 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 tion tomahawk trail trees tribe turned Uncas uncon uttered voice ward warrior wigwam woods 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 19 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
الصفحة 9 - A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at 'his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.
الصفحة 32 - 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 39 - In consequence of this bad fashion, a man who is too conscientious to misspend his days among the women, in learning the names of black marks, may never hear of the deeds of his fathers, nor feel a pride in striving to outdo them.
الصفحة 43 - Where are the blossoms of those summers! — fallen, one by one: so all of my family departed, each in his turn, to the land of spirits. I am on the hill-top, and must go down into the valley; and when Uncas follows in my footsteps, there will no longer be any of the blood of the Sagamores, for my boy is the last of the Mohicans.
الصفحة 236 - The pale-faces are masters of the earth, and the time of the redmen has not yet come again.
الصفحة 76 - Ay, lady, the fine cobweb-looking cloth you wear at your throat, is coarse, and like a fish-net, to little spots I can show you, where the river fabricates all sorts of images, as if, having broke loose from order, it would try its hand at everything. And yet what does it amount to ! After the water has been suffered to have its will, for a time, like a headstrong man, it is gathered together by the hand that made it, and a few rods below you may see it all, flowing on steadily toward the sea, as...
الصفحة 71 - 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 235 - No, no," cried Hawkeye, who had been gazing with a yearning look at the rigid features of his friend, with something like his own self-command, but whose philosophy could endure no longer ; " no, Sagamore, not alone. The gifts of our colors may be different, but God has so placed us as to journey in the same path. I have no kin, and I may also say, like you, no people. He was your son, and a red-skin by nature ; and it may be that your blood was...