The Maine WoodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 - 442 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... moose , -to be gone a month . " Well , Louis , suppose you get to the Point ( to the Five Islands , just below Mattawamkeag ) to camp , we walk on up the West Branch to - morrow , four of us , - - and wait for you at the dam , or this ...
... moose , -to be gone a month . " Well , Louis , suppose you get to the Point ( to the Five Islands , just below Mattawamkeag ) to camp , we walk on up the West Branch to - morrow , four of us , - - and wait for you at the dam , or this ...
Pagina 49
... moose were silently watching us from the distant coves , or some surly bear or timid cari- bou had been startled by our singing . It was with new emphasis that we sang there the Cana- dian boat - song , — 66 ' Row , brothers , row , the ...
... moose were silently watching us from the distant coves , or some surly bear or timid cari- bou had been startled by our singing . It was with new emphasis that we sang there the Cana- dian boat - song , — 66 ' Row , brothers , row , the ...
Pagina 52
... moose come down to drink , or else a wolf . The little rill tinkled the louder , and peopled all the wilderness for me ; and the glassy smoothness of the sleeping lake , laving the shores of a new world , with the dark , fan- tastic ...
... moose come down to drink , or else a wolf . The little rill tinkled the louder , and peopled all the wilderness for me ; and the glassy smoothness of the sleeping lake , laving the shores of a new world , with the dark , fan- tastic ...
Pagina 73
... moose here , whose bones some Indian hunters had picked on this very spot . In the night I dreamed of trout - fishing ; and , when at length I awoke , it seemed a fable that this painted fish swam there so near my couch , and rose to ...
... moose here , whose bones some Indian hunters had picked on this very spot . In the night I dreamed of trout - fishing ; and , when at length I awoke , it seemed a fable that this painted fish swam there so near my couch , and rose to ...
Pagina 75
... moose , and those of rabbits were everywhere visible . The tracks of moose , more or less re- cent , to speak literally , covered every square rod on the sides of the mountain ; and these KTAADN 75.
... moose , and those of rabbits were everywhere visible . The tracks of moose , more or less re- cent , to speak literally , covered every square rod on the sides of the mountain ; and these KTAADN 75.
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster baggage Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp Canadensis canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance East Branch falls farther feet high fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake hunter inches Indian island Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Maine woods Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake morning Mount Kineo mountain Mud Pond musquash night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag passed Penobscot perhaps pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rock rocky rods seen shore side smooth sometimes soon spruce swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white spruce white-pine white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 22 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire; Hands that the rod of empire might have swayed, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre...
Pagina 336 - John's, and to and round the falls of the said river, either by boats, rafts, or other conveyance ; that when within the province of New Brunswick, the said produce shall be dealt with as if it were the produce of the said province ; that, in like manner, the inhabitants of the territory of the upper St.
Pagina 95 - Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks? trees, wind on our cheeks! the solid earth! the actual world! the common sense/ Contact/ Contact/ Who are we? where are we?
Pagina 295 - From the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, to wit, that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of the St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Pagina 95 - What is it to be admitted to a museum, to see a myriad of particular things, compared with being shown some star's surface, some hard matter in its home! I stand in awe of my body, this matter to which I am bound has become so strange to me. I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one — that my body might — but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries!
Pagina 71 - While yet alive, before their tints had faded, they glistened like the fairest flowers, the product of primitive rivers; and he could hardly trust his senses, as he stood over them, that these jewels should have swam away in that Aboljacknagesic water for so long, so many dark ages; — these bright fluviatile flowers, seen of Indians only, made 90 beautiful, the Lord only knows why, to swim there!
Pagina 93 - Perhaps I most fully realized that this was primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature, or whatever else men call it, while coming down this part of the mountain It is difficult to conceive of a region uninhabited by man.
Pagina 129 - ... elms, now imbrowned, along the stream, and at first a few hemlocks also. We had not gone far before I was startled by seeing what I thought was an Indian encampment, covered with a red flag, on the bank, and exclaimed, "Camp!
Pagina 212 - The kings of England formerly had their forests "to hold the king's game," for sport or food, sometimes destroying villages to create or extend them; and I think that they were impelled by a true instinct. Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," — our forests, not to hold the king's...
Pagina 107 - What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt-lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. It is even more grim and wild than you had anticipated, a damp and intricate wilderness, in the spring everywhere wet and miry.