 | 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 - 446 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1863 - 272 pages
...darkness surrounded him ; the winds roared in the woods, and the torrents tumbled from the hills. 4. Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through...moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. 5. At length, not fear, but labor began to overcome him ; his breath became short ; his knees trembled... | |
 | Truman Rickard - 1863 - 152 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...he was on the point of lying down in resignation to las fate, when he beheld, through the 90 brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1864 - 450 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...beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. 8 He advanced toward the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called... | |
 | Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1865 - 154 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... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...solitude, surround'ed Aim : the winds roared in the woods, | and the torrents tumbled from the hills, ! Thus forlorn, and distressed, | he wandered through...nearer to safety, or to destruction. | At length, not far, | but la'bor , began to overcome, Aim; | his breath grew short, and Ais knees trem,bled ; | and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...11. Thus forlorn and distreseed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was goir g, 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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1879 - 362 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1881 - 426 pages
...show'rs, Pown (hi; steep hill the roaring torrent pours; Tho mountain shepherd hoars the distant nuiöö. Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the...was going, or whether he was every moment drawing near to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, hut labour, began to overcome him ; his breath... | |
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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,... 
