Cooper's Novels: The PioneersW. A. Townsend, 1859 |
Términos y frases comunes
ag'in appeared Benjamin Bess Billy Kirby buck Bumppo called canoe Chingachgook companion composite order countenance cousin creater cried d'ye dark daughter deer Delaware Dickon dogs Doolittle door duke dwelling Edwards Effingham Elizabeth Elnathan exclaimed eyes face father feel feet fire forest gentleman Grant hand Hawk-eye head heard hills Hiram horses Indian interrupted John Jones Jotham Judge Temple lady lake laugh Leather-stocking light Lippet look Louisa Major Hartmann manner Marmaduke master constable matter Miss Temple Mohegan Monsieur Monsieur Le Quoi mountain Natty Natty Bumppo never night Oliver Oliver Edwards Otsego party paused pine returned Richard Richard Jones rifle seated seemed seen Sheriff shoot shot side sleigh smile snow soon spot Squire steward stood Templeton there's thing thou thought trees turkey turned venison village voice wood-chopper woods young hunter youth
Pasajes populares
Página 149 - That it may please thee to forgive our enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, and to turn their hearts; We beseech thee to hear us, good Lord.
Página 22 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 328 - So rapid and vigorous were the bounds of the inhabitant of the forest that its active frame seemed constantly in the air, while the dog nobly faced his foe at each successive leap. When the panther lighted on the shoulders of the mastiff, which was its constant aim, old Brave, though torn with her talons...
Página 330 - ... broad feet. Miss Temple did not or could not move. Her hands were clasped in the attitude of prayer, but her eyes were still drawn to her terrible enemy; her cheeks were blanched to the whiteness of marble, and her lips were slightly separated with horror. The moment seemed now to have arrived for the fatal termination, and the beautiful figure of Elizabeth was bowdig meekly to the stroke, when a rustling of leaves behind seemed rather to mock the organs than to meet her ears.
Página 327 - be quiet, Brave ! what do you see, fellow ?" At the sounds of her voice, the rage of the mastiff, instead of being at all diminished, was very sensibly increased. He stalked in front of the ladies, and seated himself at the feet of his mistress, growling louder than before, and occasionally giving vent to his ire, by a short, surly barking. " What does he see ?" said Elizabeth : " there must be some animal in sight.
Página 327 - ... Look at the dog!" Brave had been their companion from the time the voice of his young mistress lured him from his kennel, to the present momgnt. His advanced age had long before deprived him of his activity ; and when his companions stopped to view the scenery, or to add to their bouquets, the mastiff would lay his huge frame on the ground, and await their movements, with his eyes closed, and a listlessness in his air that ill accorded with the character of a protector. But when, aroused by this...
Página 326 - Urged by this consideration, the females pursued the low, mournful sounds, that proceeded from the forest, with quick and impatient steps. More than once, the ardent Elizabeth was on the point of announcing that she saw the sufferer, when Louisa caught her by the arm, and pointing behind them, cried: "Look at the Dog!
Página 329 - In every thing but courage, he was only the vestige of what he had once been. A higher bound than ever, raised the wary and furious beast far beyond the reach of the dog, who was making a desperate, but fruitless dash at her, from which she alighted in a favourable position, on the back of her aged foe.
Página 327 - Hearing no answer from her companion, Miss Temple turned her head, and beheld Louisa, standing with her face whitened to the color of death, and her finger pointing upward, with a sort of flickering, convulsed motion. The quick eye of Elizabeth glanced in the direction indicated by her friend, where she saw the fierce front and glaring eyes of a female panther, fixed on them in horrid malignity, and threatening instant destruction. " Let us fly !" exclaimed Elizabeth, grasping the arm of Louisa,...
Página 16 - On his feet were deer-skin moccasins ornamented with porcupines' quills after the manner of the Indians and his limbs were guarded with long leggings of the same .material as the moccasins which gartering over the knees of his tarnished buck-skin breeches had obtained for him among the settlers the nick-name of Leather-stocking...