 | Charles McKnight - Duquesne, Fort - 1873 - 536 pages
...and 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 of water ; but 1 fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs." " Notwithstanding... | |
 | Frontier and pioneer life - 1875 - 806 pages
...and 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 of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. "Notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 378 pages
...out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, when the rapidity of the strenm threw it with so much violence against the pole that it jerked me out into ten feet water, but I saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. ' Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not... | |
 | Charles Hallowell Mitchener - Frontier and pioneer life - 1876 - 370 pages
...out my setting pole to try to stop the raft, 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 saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts we could not... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - Chicago - 1880 - 580 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... | |
 | Charles McKnight - American fiction - 1873 - 532 pages
...and 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 of water; but 1 fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs." " Notwithstanding... | |
 | I. Winslow Ayer - West (U.S.) - 1880 - 540 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 ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 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... | |
 | United States - 1887 - 734 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 ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - Allegheny River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1887 - 224 pages
...try and 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...; 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... 
