The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon PrincipleHurd and Houghton, 1870 - 568 Seiten |
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... human experience , our frontiersmen , telling us all the while that it was useless , assisted us for three hours in twice as many repetitions of this maneuver . We might as well have attempted to surprise Grant or Napoleon . Our ...
... human experience , our frontiersmen , telling us all the while that it was useless , assisted us for three hours in twice as many repetitions of this maneuver . We might as well have attempted to surprise Grant or Napoleon . Our ...
Seite 54
... human and bovine sagacity . The bulls selected for sentry duty take up their position on all the prominences of the divide , leaving unoccupied , as we discovered on the day referred to , and always afterward , not a single point from ...
... human and bovine sagacity . The bulls selected for sentry duty take up their position on all the prominences of the divide , leaving unoccupied , as we discovered on the day referred to , and always afterward , not a single point from ...
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... leaped up gladly , as if it tasted the young original oxygen with our own human relish ; and across its faint , vanishing edges came spectral glimpses of shivering trees along a distant COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 57.
... leaped up gladly , as if it tasted the young original oxygen with our own human relish ; and across its faint , vanishing edges came spectral glimpses of shivering trees along a distant COMSTOCK'S . - A BUFFALO HUNT . 57.
Seite 61
... human woe . O the change from the lately abandoned vigils and labors of long city nights , from the three - o'clock retirings , the nervous tossings , the un- solved problems that write themselves on the bed- curtain of him who lies ...
... human woe . O the change from the lately abandoned vigils and labors of long city nights , from the three - o'clock retirings , the nervous tossings , the un- solved problems that write themselves on the bed- curtain of him who lies ...
Seite 68
... the blood streamed faster from wounds and nostrils ; yet he showed no signs of surrender , and an almost human devil of im- potent revenge looked out of his fiery , unblinking eyeballs 68 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
... the blood streamed faster from wounds and nostrils ; yet he showed no signs of surrender , and an almost human devil of im- potent revenge looked out of his fiery , unblinking eyeballs 68 THE HEART OF THE CONTINENT .
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