 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1851 - 520 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well ! the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by. There's Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks, as if he was shooting... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 828 pages
...jiigeons, as well as others, by-and-by. There's ;j Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into I the flocks as if he was shooting down nothing but...the air, was firing and shouting as his victims fell eyen on his own person. He heard the speech of Natty, and took upon himself (o reply — " What's that,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 512 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well ! the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by. There's Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks, as if he was shooting... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 536 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well ! the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by. There's Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks, as if he was shooting... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 532 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well ! the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by. There's Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks, as if he was shooting... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Adventure stories - 1863 - 364 pages
...bring out all the brats in the village at them. Well ! the Lord won't see the waste of his creturs for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by-andby." Among the sportsmen, was Billy Kirby, who, armed with an old musket, was loading, and without even... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1876 - 536 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well! the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by. There 's Mr. Oliver, as bad as the rest of them, firing into the flocks as if he was shooting... | |
 | Annette Kolodny - History - 1975 - 204 pages
...slaughter, with Marmaduke Temple bringing "his musket to a poise" (Pi, 245) and Natty crying out against " 'Mr. Oliver ... as bad as the rest of them, firing...was shooting down nothing but the Mingo warriors' " (Pi, 251). Cousin Richard, with the gadget technology of cannon warfare at his command, has the townspeople... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1985 - 1388 pages
...motion to bring out all the brats in the village. Well! the Lord won't see the waste of his creaters for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons,...the flocks as if he was shooting down nothing but Mingo warriors." Among the sportsmen was Billy Kirby, who, armed with an old musket, was loading, and,... | |
 | Hans Huth - Nature - 1990 - 368 pages
...being shot down wantonly, Leatherstocking is sure that "the Lord won't see the waste of his creatures for nothing, and right will be done to the pigeons, as well as others, by and by." Hauling in great quantities of bass with dragnets "is fearful expenditure of the choicest... | |
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... to a body ; hurting nothing ; being, as it was, as harmless as a garter-snake. But now it gives me sore thoughts when I hear the frighty things whizzing through the air, for I know it's only a motion to bring out all the brats in the village. 
