 | William Bromwell - Locomotives - 1854 - 208 pages
...which we set about with but one poor hatchet, and finished just after sun-setting. This was a whole day's work ; we next got it launched, then went on...try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me... | |
 | 1854 - 768 pages
...raft, which we set about with one poor hatchet, and finished just after sunsetting. This was one whole day's work. We next got it launched, then went on...try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me... | |
 | American literature - 1854 - 706 pages
...raft, which we set about with one poor hatchet, and finished just after sunsetting. This was one whole day's work. We next got it launched, then went on...before we were half way over, we were jammed in the ico in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink and ourselves to perish. I put... | |
 | Eli Bowen - Mines and mineral resources - 1854 - 528 pages
...which we set about with but one poor hatchet, and finished jnst after sun-setting. This was a whole day's work ; we next got it launched, then went on...board of it, and set off; but before we were half way ever, we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and... | |
 | Henry Clay Watson - United States - 1854 - 1012 pages
...shore. The ice, I suppose had broken up above, for it was driving in vast quantities. ? ' and s ° ice in such a manner that we expected every 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... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1854 - 775 pages
...which we set about, with but one poor hatchet, and finished just after sun setting. This was a whole day's work: we next got it launched, then went on board of it, and set off; but before we were halfway over, we were jammed in the ice, in such a manner, that we expected every moment our raft to... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 pages
...after sunsetting. This was a whole day5s work. We next got it launched, and went on board of it ; then set off. But before we were half way over, we were...such a manner, 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... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 568 pages
...which we set about, with but one poor hatchet, and finished just after sun-setting. This was a whole day's work ; we next got it launched, then went on board of it, and set off; but before we were halfway over, we were jammed in the ice in such a manner, that we expected every moment our raft to... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Presidents - 1856 - 422 pages
...which we set about, with but one poor hatchet, and finished just after sun-setting. This was a whole day's work ; we next got it launched, then went on...try to stop the raft, that the ice might pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...raft, which we set about with one poor hatchet, and finished just after sunsetting. This was one whole day's work. We next got it launched, then went on...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... | |
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We next got it launched, then went on board of it and set off; but, before we were half way over, we were jammed in the ice in such a manner that we expected every moment our raft to sink, and ourselves to perish. 
