 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...  Janice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution - Stran 225avtor: Paul Leicester Ford - 1899Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | George Washington - 1887 - 122 strani
...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 one of the raft-logs. Notwithstanding all... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson Chapman - 1887 - 224 strani
...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 ten feet water ; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1891 - 550 strani
...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 of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft Logs." The incidental visit of Washington... | |
 | William Henry Venable - 1891 - 548 strani
...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 of Water; But I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the Raft. Logs." The incidental visit of... | |
 | 1899 - 674 strani
...pole to prevent our being swept down the stream ; but the rapidity of the current threw the raft willi so much violence against the pole that it jerked me...to-night would not have seemed to them such obstacles. 'Twas my first public service," he added, after a slight pause. "Who knows that to-night may not be... | |
 | Joseph Solomon Walton, Martin Grove Brumbaugh - 1897 - 316 strani
...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 into ten feet of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts,... | |
 | Rufus Blanchard - 1898 - 716 strani
...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 of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft-logs. Nothwithstanding all our efforts,... | |
 | Worthington Chauncey Ford - 1900 - 380 strani
...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 one of the Raft Logs." They found that they... | |
 | Louis Albert Banks - 1902 - 426 strani
...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 of water; but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. " Notwithstanding all our... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 588 strani
...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 of water, but I fortunately saved myself by catching hold of one of the raft logs. Notwithstanding all our efforts... | |
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