The Maine WoodsHoughton, Mifflin, 1884 - 328 pagina's |
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Pagina 15
... sounds that we heard . This was what you might call a bran - new country ; the only roads were of Nature's making , and the few houses were camps . Here , then , one could no longer accuse institutions and society , but must front the ...
... sounds that we heard . This was what you might call a bran - new country ; the only roads were of Nature's making , and the few houses were camps . Here , then , one could no longer accuse institutions and society , but must front the ...
Pagina 16
... sound within , still good for fuel or for timber ; soon they would be cut into lengths and burnt again . Here were thousands of cords , enough to keep the poor of Boston and New York amply warm for a winter , which only cumbered the ...
... sound within , still good for fuel or for timber ; soon they would be cut into lengths and burnt again . Here were thousands of cords , enough to keep the poor of Boston and New York amply warm for a winter , which only cumbered the ...
Pagina 22
... sound of rain - drops on the cedar - splints which covered the roof , and awaked the next morning with a drop or two in our eyes . It had set in for a storm , and we made up our minds not to forsake such comfortable quarters with this ...
... sound of rain - drops on the cedar - splints which covered the roof , and awaked the next morning with a drop or two in our eyes . It had set in for a storm , and we made up our minds not to forsake such comfortable quarters with this ...
Pagina 29
... sound a false alarm this time . were steel traps by the door , of various sizes , for wolves , otter , and bears , with large claws instead of teeth , to catch in their sinews . Wolves are frequently killed with poisoned bait . There At ...
... sound a false alarm this time . were steel traps by the door , of various sizes , for wolves , otter , and bears , with large claws instead of teeth , to catch in their sinews . Wolves are frequently killed with poisoned bait . There At ...
Pagina 37
... sounds ; but we heard none this time . If we did not hear , how ever , we did listen , not without a reasonable expectation ; that at least I have to tell , -only some utterly uncivil- ized , big - throated owl hooted loud and dismally ...
... sounds ; but we heard none this time . If we did not hear , how ever , we did listen , not without a reasonable expectation ; that at least I have to tell , -only some utterly uncivil- ized , big - throated owl hooted loud and dismally ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Allegash arbor-vitæ asked Aster Bangor bank bark batteau birch black spruce boat called camp canoe Caucomgomoc Chesuncook Chesuncook Lake clearing Clintonia borealis common commonly companion dark dead dead-water distance ducks East Branch falls farther feet high feet long fire forest four Grand Lake ground half head heard Heron Lake hunter hunting inches Indian island killed Kineo Ktaadn land length Lilium Canadense logs look lumberers Mattawamkeag McCauslin meadow miles Millinocket moose moose-hide moose-meat Moosehead carry Moosehead Lake mountain Mud Pond night Oldtown once paddled Passadumkeag Penobscot perhaps pole Polis pork portage rain rapids river road rocks rocky rods seen shore side sight smooth sometimes soon spruce stood suncook Lake swamp thought told took trees trout Umbazookskus walked Webster Stream white-throated sparrow wild wilderness wind yellow birch
Populaire passages
Pagina 37 - Why should we yet our sail unfurl? There is not a breath the blue wave to curl; But, when the wind blows off the shore, Oh! sweetly we'll rest our weary oar. Blow, breezes, blow, the stream runs fast, The Rapids are near and the daylight's past. Utawas' tide ! this trembling moon Shall see us float over thy surges soon.
Pagina 71 - Man was not to be associated with it. It was Matter, vast, terrific — not his Mother Earth that we have heard of, not for him to tread on, or be buried in — no, it were being too familiar even to let his bones lie there — the home, this, of Necessity and Fate. There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man.
Pagina 213 - 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 65 - Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy, With purpose to explore or to disturb The secrets of your realm, but, by constraint Wandering this darksome desert, as my way Lies through your spacious empire up to light...
Pagina 82 - ... the inexpressible tenderness and immortal life of the grim forest, where Nature, though it be midwinter, is ever in her spring, where the moss-grown and decaying trees are not old, but seem to enjoy a perpetual youth; and blissful, innocent Nature, like a serene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills ? What a place to live, what a place to die and be buried in!
Pagina 183 - 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 65 - The peculiarities of that spacious table-land on which I was standing, as well as the remarkable semi-circular precipice or basin on the eastern side, were all concealed by the mist. I had brought my whole pack to the top, not knowing but I should have to make my descent to the river, and possibly to the settled portion of the State alone, and by some other route, and wishing to have a complete outfit with me. But at length, fearing that my companions would be anxious to reach the river before night,...
Pagina 65 - The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains, — their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb to the summit of Ktaadn.
Pagina 21 - In fact, the deeper you penetrate into the woods, the more intelligent, and, in one sense, less countrified do you find the inhabitants; for always the pioneer has been a traveller, and, to some extent, a man of the world...
Pagina 124 - ... changed into a pine at last ? No! no! it is the poet; he it is who makes the truest use of the pine, — who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane...