 This warning effectually closed all discourse, and the hardy mariners, knowing that they had already done all in the power of man to ensure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety, awaiting the result. At a short distance ahead of them the whole ocean...  Cooper's Works: The pilot - Page 68by James Fenimore Cooper - 1859Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1823 - 306 pages
...a piece of steel." " Silence all !" cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can !" This warning effectually...white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on, in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in mad gambols. A single streak of dark billows,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1824 - 924 pages
...piece of steel." " Silence all ! " cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can ! " This warning effectually...white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in mad gambols. A single streak of dark billows,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Sea stories, American - 1824 - 574 pages
..." Silence all!" cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff—luff you can!" This warning effectually closed all discourse,...white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on, in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in mad gambols. A single streak of dark hillows,... | |
 | American prose literature - 1832 - 478 pages
...a piece of steel." " Silence all!" cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we «hall soon know our fate. Let her luff— luff you can !" This warning effectually...white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on, in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in mad gambols. A single streak of dark billows,... | |
 | Novelist - 1839 - 570 pages
...all discourse, and tlie hardy mariners, knowing that they had already done nil in the power iifmmi to ensure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety,...result. At a short distance ahead of them the whole xean WRS white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on, in regular succession, appeared to... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1843 - 768 pages
...go to pieces. Silence all !" This warning effectually closed all discourse, and the hardy mariners stood in breathless anxiety awaiting the result. At...a short distance ahead of them the whole ocean was a sheet of snowy foam ; and the waves, instead of rolling on in regular succession, appeared to be... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...piece of steel." " Silence all ! " cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can." This warning effectually...that they had already done all in the power of man to insure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety awaiting the result. At a short distance ahead of... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...piece of steel." — " Silence all! " cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff— luff you can ! " This warning effectually closed all discourse ; and the hardymariners, knowing that they had already done all in the power of man to insure their safety, stood... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1853 - 498 pages
...a piece of steel." " Silence all I" cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff— luff you can!" This warning effectually...white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in mad gambols. A single streak of dark billows,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...soon know our fate. Let her luff— luff you can!" This warning effectually closed all discotirse, and the hardy mariners, knowing that they had already done all in the power of man to insure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety awaiting the result. At a short distance ahead of... | |
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