The Adirondack: Or, Life in the WoodsC. Scribner, 1869 - 451 sidor |
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Adirondack amid bark beautiful Blue Mountain Lake boat bosom bushes camp carpet-bag carrying-place caught Charlie Cheney clear dark DEAR H deep deep bay deer dinner distance feeling feet fire fish foot forest Forked Lake green guides half head heard heart heavens hounds huge hunter Indian inlet islands killed Lake Champlain land leaves length light Long Lake look Martin's miles Mitchell moose MOOSE LAKES morning Mount Emmons mountain never night northern diver oars once paddle panther passed pond Port Kent pushed Raquette Lake Raquette River reached region rifle rocks rolled round Saranac Saranac River scene scenery seemed sheet of water shoot shore shot side sight solitude soon sound spot spring started stood stopped storm strange stream stretched strike struck summit surface Tahawus thought took tramp trees trout turned vast venison wild wilderness wind woods
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Sida 101 - palace, citadel, and huge Fantastic pomp of structure without name, In fleecy folds voluminous enwrapped. Such by the Hebrew prophets were beheld In vision—forms uncouth of mightiest power, For admiration and mysterious awe. 1
Sida 297 - comes through the wild (Like a father consoling his fretful child), Which banishes bitterness, wrath, and fear, Saying MAN is DISTANT BUT G-OD is
Sida 230 - forest' alone to ride, With the death-fraught firelock in my hand, The only law of the desert land." But to return to practical matters : yonder
Sida 73 - rocks ; The little rills and waters numberless, insensible by daylight, blend their notes With the loud streams ; and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard Within the circuit of the fabric huge, One voice—one solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance, above the power of sight— An iron knell ! with echoes from afar, Faint and still fainter.
Sida 69 - huge gap between two mountains, and look up on the precipices that toppled heaven high above me. But here was a world of rocks, overgrown with trees and moss—over and under and between which we were compelled to crawl and dive and work our way with so much exertion«, and care, that
Sida 243 - the plains, they look wild and spirited enough for Amazons^; They frequently ride without a bridle or even halter, guiding the horse by a motion or stroke of the hand. "What think you of a dozen fearless girls mounted on fleet horses, without a saddle, on a dead run? I
Sida 167 - to think so little of nature, as if to love her and seek her haunts and companionship were a waste of time? I have been astonished at the remarks sometimes made to me on my long jaunts in the woods, as if it were almost wicked to cast off the gravity of society, and wander like a child amid the beauty which
Sida 40 - ectly still in its place, excopt that it rolled rapidly on its axis—the * A wooden lever. next moment it yielded to the impetuosity of the current and darted away as if inherent with life, and moved straight towards a precipice that frowned over the water below. Recoiling from the shock, its head swung off with the current, and
Sida 141 - was treading in all the joy of freedom his forest home. How wild had been his terror, as the fierce cry of the hound first opened on his track ! —how swift the race down the mountain side, and how free and daring his plunge from the rock into the wave! How noble
Sida 69 - became such a burden, that I was compelled to leave it against a tree, with a mark erected near by, to determine its locality. I had expected, from paintings I had seen of this Pass, that I was to walk almost on a level into