 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 588 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...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 Alexander McMurry - 1904 - 288 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...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... | |
 | Edward Channing - 1904 - 166 σελίδες
...try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so 10 much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water." In this dangerous situation Washington saved himself only by grasping at the raft-logs. By the next... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Fred Newton Scott - 1905 - 182 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...Logs. 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... | |
 | H. C. Stiefel - 1905 - 232 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... | |
 | 1896 - 728 σελίδες
...and ourselves to perish. I put out my steering-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... | |
 | Sarah Hutchins Killikelly - 1906 - 694 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...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... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1907 - 468 σελίδες
...rapidity of the stream threw it with such force 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." They were forced to swim to an island, and next day crossed on the ice. Read Parkman's Montcalm and... | |
 | George Washington - 1908 - 500 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...Logs. 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1909 - 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...the Raft Logs. Notwithstanding all our Efforts we 8 could not get the Raft to either Shore; but were obliged, as we were near an Island, to quit our... | |
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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... 
