 | Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 446 pages
...whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and...he was on the point of lying down in resignation to 30 his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was troino ' , or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...85 he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and...resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the 90 brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...and solitude surrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods, and the torrents tumbled from the hills. Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the...whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 pages
...solitude surrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods, and the ''"torrents tumbled from the hills. 10. Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labor, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...distressed, he wandered through the wil.. without knowing whither he was going, or whether he wa>> every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction....trembled, and he was on the, point, of lying down ir. resignation to his fate, when he beheld through brambles the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards... | |
 | 1858 - 916 pages
...and solitude surrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods, and the torrents dashed from the hills. Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the...At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; hist breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...solitude surrounded him;—the winds roared in the woods, and the torrents tumbled from the hills. 7. Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labor began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point... | |
 | James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...overspread with clouds, the day vanished from before him, and a sudden tempest gathered round his head. Forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild,...whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or destruction. At length, not fear, but labour began to overcome him. His breath grew short, and his... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 450 pages
...solitude surrounded him ; — the winds roared in the woods, and the torrents tumbled from the hills. 7. Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the...safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labor began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point... | |
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Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome *him ; his breath grew short,... 
