 Swift of foot was Hiawatha; He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind him! Strong of arm was Hiawatha; He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and swiftness, That the tenth...  The Mathematical Monthly - Page 1771859Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...Learned in all the lore of old men, In all youthful sports ami pastimes, In all manly arts and labors. Swift of foot was Hiawatha ; He could shoot an arrow...And run forward with such fleetness, That the arrow f«ll behind him ! Strong of arm was Hiawatha ; He could shoot ten arrows upward. Shoot them with such... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...PROJECTILES. Prof. Longfellow has recorded a wonderful story of the flectness of his Indian hero. " Swift of foot was Hiawatha ; He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward with such flcetness, That the arrow fell behind him. Strong of arm was Hiawatha ; He conld shoot ten arrows upwards,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1889 - 264 pages
...Learned in all the lore of old men, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labours. Swift of foot was Hiawatha ; He could shoot an arrow...with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind him ! Strong of arm was Hiawatha ; He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Wright - Mechanics - 1890 - 276 pages
...high at a distance of 100 yards. How far from the wall will it strike the ground? Ans. 10.34 ft. 9. " Swift of foot was Hiawatha: He could shoot an arrow...with such fleetness That the arrow fell behind him ! Strong of arm was Hiawatha : He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and... | |
 | Emma J. Todd - 1890 - 376 pages
...Skilled in all the craft of hunters, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors. He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward...with such fleetness That the arrow fell behind him. He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and swiftness That the tenth had left... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1890 - 380 pages
...Skilled in all the craft of hunters, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors. He could shoot an arrow from him, And run forward...with such fleetness That the arrow fell behind him. He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and swiftness That the tenth had left... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886 - 380 pages
..."Learned in all the lore of old men, In all youthful sports and pastimes, In all manly arts and labors. Swift of foot was Hiawatha ; He could shoot an arrow...forward with such fleetness, That the arrow fell behind Mm ! Strong of arm was Hiawatha ; He could shoot ten arrows upward, Shoot them with such strength and... | |
 | Geneva (Ill.) - 1892 - 174 pages
...to it, and prove it even batter than we elaimad ! Even more: — '•Swift of foot waj Hiawatha! Ho could shoot an arrow from him. And run forward with such fleetness That the arrow fell behind him." It is interesting to see, week by week, positions hold thirty, twenty, ten years ago, by liberal religious... | |
 | Mathematicians - 1896 - 740 pages
...WHITAKER. AM. Ph. D., Professor of Mathematics. Manual Training School Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. ••Swift of foot was Hiawatha. He could shoot an arrow from him And run forward with such fleetuens That the arrow fell behind him! Strong of arm was Hiawatha; He could shoot ten arrows upward... | |
 | Augustus Jay Du Bois - Mechanics, Analytic - 1894 - 262 pages
...extremities of any chord of the path of a projectile, at right angles to the chord, are equal. (30) Swift of foot was Hiawatha ; He could shoot an arrow from him, And runfonvard with such fleet ness, That the arrow fell behind him ! Strong of arm was Hiawatha ; He could... | |
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