 | 1924 - 600 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... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1919 - 454 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,...with so much violence against the pole that it jerked us out into ten feet of water. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but... | |
 | George Thornton Fleming - 1922 - 642 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... | |
 | Hamilton James Eckenrode - 1922 - 392 pages
...the Ohio, and to cross a river we made a raft of logs. I was poling, and the current threw the raft with 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1925 - 492 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 the Raft to either Shore; but were obliged,... | |
 | National Americana Society - 1925 - 856 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my sitting 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... | |
 | John Thomson Faris - 1925 - 460 pages
...Raft, that the Ice might pass by, when the Rapidity of the stream . . . jerked me out into Ten Feet of Water, but I 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,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1926 - 578 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... | |
 | George Patterson Donehoo - 1926 - 562 pages
...that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. I put out my sitting 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... | |
 | George Washington - 1927 - 442 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 the Raft to either Shore ; but were obliged,... | |
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