 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 454 Seiten
...their President shared all their toils and hardships, they soon became reconciled to their situation, " making it their delight to hear the trees thunder as they fell." But the axe frequently blistered their tender fingers, so that " many times every third blow had a loud oath... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1834 - 430 Seiten
...their President shared all their toils and hardships, they soon became reconciled to their situation, " making it their delight to hear the trees thunder as they fell." But the axe frequently blistered their tender fingers, so that " many times every third blow had a loud oath... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1839 - 394 Seiten
...their President shared all their toils and hardships, they soon became reconciled to their situation, "making it their delight to hear the trees thunder as they fell." But the axe frequently blistered their tender fingers, so that ' ' many times every third blow had a loud oath... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - 1846 - 428 Seiten
...but the delight of our amateur woodcutters had its disagreeables also. " The axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the echo." For this immorality, which our hero seems to have held in considerable dislike,... | |
 | 1847 - 394 Seiten
...their President shared all their toils and hardships, they soon became reconciled to their situation, " making it their delight to hear the trees thunder as they fell." But the axe frequently blistered their tender fingers, so that " many times every third blow had a loud oath... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1853 - 734 Seiten
...forest—"making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell; but the Axe so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the echo; for remedie of which crime, the President deuised how to have every mans othes... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - 1855 - 738 Seiten
...— "making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell; but the Axe so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the echo; for remedie of which crime, the President deuised how to have every mans othes... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1863 - 286 Seiten
...soon hlistered the delicate hands of the fine gentlemen, and the labour grew irksome and monotonous. " Many times every third blow had a loud oath to drown the echo." Smith cured this habit by counting the number of oaths, and for each ordering a can of cold water to... | |
 | William Coutts Keppel Earl of Albemarle - 1865 - 504 Seiten
...woodcraft, " making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell ; but the axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe to drowne the echo, for remedie of which sinne the president devised how to haue every man's othes... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie - 1870 - 286 Seiten
...exiled gentlemen laboured manfully, but under grievous discouragements. " The axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that many times every third blow had a loud oath to drown the echo." Smith was a man upon whose soul there lay a becoming reverence for sacred things. He devised how to... | |
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All these things were carried on so pleasantly as within a week they became masters ; making it their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell ; but the axes so oft blistered their tender fingers that many times every third blow had a loud othe... 
