| William Holmes McGuffey - 1849 - 348 pages
...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 of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1849 - 466 pages
...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 of lying down in resignation to 30 his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced... | |
| Truman Rickard, Hiram Orcutt - 1850 - 130 pages
...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 of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the 90 brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or 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 knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 pages
...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 of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced... | |
| 1855 - 424 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or whether he wa>> every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the, point, of lying down ir. resignation to his fate,... | |
| 1858 - 916 pages
...safety or to destruction. 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 to his fate, when he beheld through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 pages
...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 of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper." He advanced... | |
| James Alexander McMullen - 1860 - 170 pages
...knowing whither he was going, or 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 knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1861 - 446 pages
...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 of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.8 He advanced... | |
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