 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 - Readers - 1897 - 252 pages
...pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can ! " 4. This warning closed all discourse, 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 522 pages
...discourse ; 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...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,... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 564 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...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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 536 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... | |
 | Readers - 1898 - 264 pages
...like a piece of steel." " Silence, all !" cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can." This warning effectually...discourse; and the hardy mariners, knowing that they had done all in the power of man to insure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety awaiting the result.... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Literature - 1899 - 420 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... | |
 | Harry Pratt Judson, Ida Catherine Bender, Ida C. Bender - Readers - 1900 - 530 pages
...cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can ! " 2B stood in breathless anxiety, awaiting the result....white with foam, and the waves, instead of rolling on in regular succession, appeared to be tossing about in 5 mad gambols. A single streak of dark billows,... | |
 | Sherman Williams - Readers - 1902 - 504 pages
...like a piece of steel." " Silence, all! " cried the pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall know our fate. Let her luff — luff you can." This warning effectually...discourse; and the hardy mariners, knowing that they had done all in the power of man to insure their safety, stood in breathless anxiety awaiting the result.... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 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... | |
 | William T. Vlymen - Readers - 1904 - 520 pages
...pilot. " Now, gentlemen, we shall soon know our fate. Let her luff —luff all you can! " This warning closed all discourse; 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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