 ... aside, with a lively progress, and, obedient to her helm, was brought as near to the desired course as the direction of the wind would allow. The hurry and bustle on the yards gradually subsided, and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining...  Cooper's Works: The pilot - Page 57by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1823 - 306 pages
...and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads, in melancholy...inexperienced in that gallant frigate, as not to know, that they, as yet, only felt the infant efforts of the wind. Each moment, however, it increased in power,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads, in melancholy...inexperienced in that gallant frigate, as not to know, that they, «s yet, only felt the infant efforts of the wind. Each moment, however, it increased in power,... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they weVe enveloped, and some shaking their heads in melancholy...none so ignorant or inexperienced in that gallant fr%ate, as not to know, that they, as yet, only felt the infant efforts of the wind. Each moment, however,... | |
 | Novelist - 1839 - 570 pages
...the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which theyw're enveloped, and some shaking their heads in melancholy...board anxiously waited for the fury of the gale ; for jh"* were none so ignorant or inexperienced in that gallant frigste. as not to know, that aa yet, tney... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1843 - 768 pages
...seaman, and all on board anxiously waited for its fury, for there were none so ignorant or inexperienced as not to know that as yet they only felt the infant effects of the. wind. During this time, the sea was becoming more agitated, and the violence of the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads in melancholy...inexperienced in that gallant frigate as not to know that they as yet only felt the infant efforts of the winds. Each moment, however, it increased in power,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 498 pages
...and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining then- eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads, in melancholy...for there were none so ignorant or inexperienced in tW waHnnt frigate, as not to know that as yet they only felt the infant efiects of the wind. Each moment,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads in meluncholy doubt, afraid to express the apprehensions they really...ignorant or inexperienced in that gallant frigate, äs not to know that they äs yet only feit the infant efforts of the winds. Each moment, however,... | |
 | American prose literature - 1855 - 506 pages
...and the men slowly descended to the deck, all straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they were enveloped, and some shaking their heads in melancholy...inexperienced in that gallant frigate, as not to know, that they, as yet, only felt the infant efforts of the wind. Each moment, however, it increased in power,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...the men slowly descended to the deck, alt straining their eyes to pierce the gloom in which they wer* enveloped, and some shaking their heads in melancholy...inexperienced in that gallant frigate, as not to know that they as yet only felt the infant efforts of the winds. Each moment, however, it increased in power,... | |
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