 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 378 pages
...strenm threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet water, but I saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs....Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not get to the shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft and make for it. The cold... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1880 - 580 pages
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as... | |
 | I. Winslow Ayer - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 540 pages
...moment our raft to sink, I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles McKnight - American fiction - 1873 - 532 pages
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try and stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but 1 fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs." " Notwithstanding... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1886 - 504 pages
...and ourselves to perish. 1 put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole p on page 1*79 of February ST. NICHOLAS. IN GTO N. • «!i |i|. ilf: „ -ft-if ^iwtt ; il l£i 371... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1887 - 122 pages
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1889 - 286 pages
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, as... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 548 pages
...and they expect to perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by ; when the Rapidity of the Stream threw it with...against the Pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft. Logs." The incidental... | |
 | William Henry Venable - History - 1891 - 552 pages
...the} : expect to perish. "I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by ; when the Rapidity of the Stream threw it with...against the Pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs." The incidental... | |
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... jammed in the ice, in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence... 
