 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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... | |
 | 1887 - 734 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,...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 - 1886 - 504 pages
...manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. 1 put out my setting-pole to try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by,...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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - 1887 - 224 pages
...expected every moment our raft to sink 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 such violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1891 - 550 pages
..."jammed in the ice " in a most dangerous manner, and they expect to perish. " I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...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 - 1891 - 548 pages
..."jammed in the ice" in a most dangerous manner, and they expect to perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, that the Ice might pass by...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... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 pages
...perish. I put out my setting Pole to try to stop the Raft, . . . when the Rapidity of the Stream . . . jerked me out into ten Feet Water : but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs. . . . [We] arrived at Mr. Gist's on the second day of January.94 On Washington's return... | |
 | 1899 - 676 pages
...pole to prevent our being swept down the stream ; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft willi so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet of water, and I was like to have drowned. This wind and sleet seem warm when I remember that, and had... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1897 - 316 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 ; when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved... | |
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