 They were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with firearms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the forest, patient of fatigue, and mad with a passion for rapine, vengeance, and destruction, retreating into swamps...  History of the Old Township of Dunstable: Including Nashua, Nashville ... - Pagina 91door Charles James Fox - 1846 - 278 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | George Bancroft - 1837 - 496 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the forest, patient of fatigue and 1 C. Mather, u. 486. I. Mather, 34. Hubbard, 130. KING PHILIP'S WAR. 103 mad with a passion for rapine,... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pagina’s
..." The Indians were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the...which they ravaged like a passing storm ; and for a full year they kept all New-England in a state of terror and excitement. The exploring party was... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1839 - 494 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the...and mad with a passion for rapine, vengeance, and destruc- CHAP. tion, retreating into swamps for their fastnesses, or — v~ niding in the greenwood... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 368 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms ; fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the...which they ravaged like a passing storm ; and for a full year they kept all New England in a state of terror and excitement. The exploring party was... | |
 | Barbara Hawes - 1844 - 414 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were as wary as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the...forest, patient of fatigue, and mad with a passion for vengeance and destruction ; retreating into swamps and fastnesses, or hiding in the green-wood thickets,... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 500 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were secret as beasts of prey, skilful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the forest, patient ot fatigue and i C. Mather, ii. 486. L Mather, 34 Hubbard, 120. mad with a passion for rapine, vengeance,... | |
 | Elam Smalley - 1851 - 600 pagina’s
...if eight-fold in numbers, fled timorously before infantry. But tbey were secret as beasts of prey. By the rapidity of their descent, they seemed omnipresent...villages, which they ravaged like a passing storm, and for a full year they kept all New England in a state of terror and excitement. The exploring party was... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 pagina’s
...fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the forest, patient of fatigue, mad with passion for rapine, vengeance, and destruction, retreating...thickets, where the leaves muffled the eyes of the pursuers. By the rapidity of their descent, they seemed omnipotent among the scattered villages, which... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 946 pagina’s
...patient of fatigue, mad with passion for rapine, vengeance, and destruction, retreating into swamps tor their fastnesses, or hiding in the green-wood thickets, where the leaves muffled the eyes of the pursuers. By the rapidity of their descent, they seemed omnipotent among the scattered villages, which... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1852 - 948 pagina’s
...infantry. But they were secret as beasts of prey, skillful marksmen, and in part provided with fire-arms, fleet of foot, conversant with all the paths of the forest, patient of fatigue, rnad with passion for rapine, vengeance, arid destruction, retreating into swarnps for their fastnesses,... | |
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