 | Eli Bowen - 1854 - 526 σελίδες
...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 against tho pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1855 - 638 σελίδες
...sink, and ourselves 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...Notwithstanding all our efforts . we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged, as we were near an island, to quit our raft, and make to... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 422 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | George Washington - 1860 - 272 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Morrison Heady - 1864 - 336 σελίδες
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my settingpole 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 I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles McKnight - 1873 - 536 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | 1875 - 806 σελίδες
...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 I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. "Notwithstanding... | |
 | Neville B. Craig - 1876 - 604 σελίδες
...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...hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all oar efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged, (is we were near an island, to quit... | |
 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - 1876 - 370 σελίδες
...moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much...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... | |
 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - 1876 - 376 σελίδες
...ourselves to perish. I put out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, when the rapidity of the streiim 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... | |
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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... 
