 And for the season it was winter; and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search an unknown coast.  American Literature - Page 17by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nahum Gale - 1857 - 364 pages
...no houses, or much less towns to repair to, to seek for succor." " The season, it was winter," known to be " sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms." " Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1868 - 948 pages
...brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from many perils and miseries. " But what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men ? And what multitudes of them there were, they then knew not; neither could they,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 628 pages
...season it was winter, and they that know the winters of the country know them to be sharp and violent, subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and * This rock has become an object of... | |
 | Various - 1871 - 664 pages
...them. But these savage barbarians were readier to fill their sides full of arrows. As for the season, it was winter; and they that know the winters of that...know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to violent storms, when it is dangerous to travel to unknown places, much more to search out unknown coasts.... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1874 - 130 pages
...season, it was winter, and they that know the winters of the country, know them to be sharp and violent, subject to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1890 - 664 pages
...with them . . . were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than otherwise. And for the season, it was winter ; and they that know the winters of...but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes there might be of them, they knew not. Neither could they,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 332 pages
...with them . . . were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than otherwise. And for the season, it was winter; and they that know the winters of that...but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes there might be of them, they knew not. Neither could they,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1878 - 670 pages
...with them . . . were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than otherwise. And for the season, it was winter ; and they that know the winters of...but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men ? And what multitudes there might be of them, they knew not. Neither could they,... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - 1879 - 320 pages
...with them . . . were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than otherwise. And for the season, it was winter ; and they that know the winters of...but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men? And what multitudes there might be of them, they knew not. Neither could they,... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - 1891 - 482 pages
...who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean. . . . For the season it was winter and . . . what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men ? *° After our landing and viewing of the places, so well as we could, we came... | |
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