 The warning of the prudent cockswain was promptly obeyed, and the boat cautiously drew off to a distance, leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as...  Cooper's Works: The pilot - Page 242by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1823 - 306 pages
...leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. Fr.om a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as when...hid from view by a pyramid of foam, that was deeply died with blood. The roarings of the fish were like the bellowings of a herd of bulls, and to one who... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as when...bellowings of a herd of bulls, and to one who was ignorant of the fact, it would have appeared as if a thousand monsters were engaged in deadly combat,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories, American - 1824 - 574 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as when...all was hid from view by a pyramid of foam, that was deepl\ aipd with blood. The roarings of the fish were like the bellowings of a herd of bulls, and to... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 472 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as when...rapidity and violence, till all was hid from view by a pyramy of foam, that was deeply dyed with blood. The roarings of the fish were like the bellowings... | |
 | Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...under its dying agonies. From a stale of perfect rest, the terrible monsler threw its (ail on high, ns when in sport, but its blows were trebled in rapidity and violence, till nil was hid from view by a pyramid of foam, (hat was deeply dyed with blood. The roarings of the fish... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1824 - 478 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space, while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high, as when...bellowings of a herd of bulls, and to one who was ignorant of the fact, it would have appeared as if a thousand monsters were engaged in deadly combat,... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high as when...bellowings of a herd of bulls, and, to one who was ignorant of the fact, it would have appeared as if a thousand monsters were engaged in deadly combat... | |
 | Readers - 1833 - 224 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a clear space while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high as when in sport, but its blows were treLled in rapidity and violence, till all was hid from view by a pyramid of foam, that was deeply... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - English literature - 1835 - 470 pages
...distance, leaving to the animal a dear space while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfwt rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on high as when...were trebled in rapidity and violence, till all was lu'd from view by a pyramid of foam, that was deeply dyed with blood. The roarings of the fish were... | |
 | Literature - 1836 - 332 pages
...while under its dying agonies. From a state of perfect rest, the terrible monster threw its tail on , as when in sport ; but, its blows were trebled in...from view by a pyramid of foam that was deeply dyed in blood. The roarings of the fish were like the bellowing of a herd of bulls, and to one who was ignorant... | |
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