 | A. W. Patterson - Frontier and pioneer life - 1843 - 328 pages
...'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 out into...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,... | |
 | American literature - 1835 - 638 pages
...ice might pass by ; when the rapidity of the stream tbrew it with so much violence against the pule, that it jerked me out into ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get to either shore, but were obliged,... | |
 | Henry Howe - Virginia - 1845 - 596 pages
...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 out into...water. But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raftlogi. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not get the raft to either shore,... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...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 out into...water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. 144 FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR. " Notwithstanding all our efforts, we could not... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...WASHINGTON CROSSING THE ALI. EOHANY. !THE NE'Ar 'OKfc • I PUBLIC LI; tiARY.I ji />FTOR, LENOX AND against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet...; but I 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... | |
 | Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 814 pages
...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 out into...water: but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts, we cojjld not get to either shore, but were... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...pass by, when the rapidity of the stream threw it with such force WASHINSTON CROSSINO THE ALLEGHANY. L against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet...; but I 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... | |
 | George William Featherstonhaugh - Cherokee Indians - 1847 - 812 pages
...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 out into...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,... | |
 | John Frost - 1847 - 602 pages
...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 out into...water; but I 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... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Generals - 1848 - 394 pages
...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,...; but I 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... | |
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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 so much violence against the pole, that it jerked me out into ten feet water: but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of... 
