... swiftly by ripples and breakers, by streaks of foam and darker passages of deep water, when he threw down his trumpet and exclaimed — " What threatened to be our destruction has proved our salvation ! Keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point... The Pilot: A Tale of the Sea - Page 246by James Fenimore Cooper - 1823 - 293 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...to be our destruction has proved our salvation ! — keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their sail." The moment he stepped from the gun, the Pilot lost the air of authority that had so singularly... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 498 pages
...Keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer east by north; you will run through these shoals on that course in an hour, and by BO doing you will gain five leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their tail." The moment... | |
| Improved illustrated reader - 1885 - 266 pages
...threatened to be our destruction has proved our salvation. — Keep yonder hill crowned with wood one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their trail." 14. Every officer in the ship, after the breathless suspense of uncertainty had passed, rushed... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...Keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer east by north; you will run through these shoals on that...of your enemy, who will have to double their tail." close interest he had manifested in the incidents of the day became lost in the cold, settled reserve... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1892 - 726 pages
...Keep yonder hill, crowned with wood, one point open from the church-tower at its base, and steer east by north ; you will run through these shoals on that...gun, the pilot lost the air of authority that had so singular^ distinguished his animated form, and even the close interest he had manifested in the incidents... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1892 - 510 pages
...Keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer east by north ; you will run through these shoals on that...you will gain five leagues of your enemy, who will liav^ to double fbeir tail" The moment he stepped from the gun, the Pilot lost the air of authority... | |
| Albert Franklin Blaisdell - American literature - 1899 - 462 pages
...Keep yonder hill crowned with wood, one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer east by north ; you will run through these shoals on that...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their trail." . . . Every officer in the ship, after the breathless suspense of uncertainty had passed, rushed... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Children's literature - 1901 - 364 pages
...threatened to be our destruction has" proved our salvation. Keep yonder hill crowned with wood one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their trail." Every officer in the ship, after the breathless suspense of uncertainty had passed, rushed... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1901 - 376 pages
...threatened to be our destruction has proved our salvation. Keep yonder hill crowned with wood one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their trail." Every officer in the ship, after the breathless suspense of uncertainty had passed, rushed... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Primers, American - 1920 - 390 pages
...threatened to be our destruction has proved our salvation. — Keep yonder hill crowned with wood one point open from the church tower at its base, and steer...leagues of your enemy, who will have to double their trail." 14. Every officer in the ship, after the breathless suspense of uncertainty had passed, rushed... | |
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