 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1848 - 394 pages
...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 such violence against the pole, that it jerked me out, into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved... | |
 | Wills De Hass - 1851 - 444 pages
...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,...water ; but I fortunately saved myself, by catching one of the raft logs. — Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Henry Howe - 1852 - 612 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 714 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1853 - 786 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | John Frost - 1854 - 775 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1854 - 528 pages
...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,...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of tho raft-logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | Eli Bowen - 1854 - 526 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - 1854 - 1012 pages
...moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put on my setting-pole to try to stop the raft,' thai the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with and set off; but before we were half-way over, we were jammed in thè Washington and Mr. Gist journeying... | |
 | George Washington - 1855 - 638 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft would sink, and ourselves perish. I put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by...fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts . we could not get the raft to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
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