 | John Smith - America - 1819 - 278 pages
...drinking, working or playing, they but doing as the President did himselfe. All these things were carried so pleasantly as within a weeke they became Masters:...their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell; but the Axes so oft blistered their tender fmgers, that many times every third blow had a loud othe... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Virginia - 1846 - 418 pages
..." younger sons" who were sent to him from England. He himself shrunk from no toil, and no exposure. Neither danger nor labor discouraged his manhood;...their tender fingers, that many times every third 'ilow had a loud othe to drowne the echo." For this immorality, which our hero seems to have held in... | |
 | William Gilmore Simms - Virginia - 1846 - 428 pages
..." younger sons" who were sent to him from England. He himself shrunk from no toil, and no exposure. Neither danger nor labor discouraged his manhood;...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."... | |
 | Henry Howard Brownell - America - 1855 - 738 pages
...clapboards. Stimulated by his vigorous example, these gallants, axe in hand, assailed the virgin 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... | |
 | William Coutts Keppel Earl of Albemarle - Canada - 1865 - 504 pages
...the excellent example of manual labour which he set them. They soon became masters of 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... | |
 | John Smith - Bermuda Islands - 1884 - 1150 pages
...eating, drinking, working, or playing, they doing but as the President, all these things were carried so pleasantly, as within a weeke, they became Masters...their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell. But the axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that commonly every third blow had a lowd oath... | |
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1909 - 550 pages
...last supply, and both proper gentlemen. Strange were these pleasures to their conditions, yet * * * all these things were carried on so pleasantly, as...their delight to heare the trees thunder as they fell. But the axes so oft blistered their tender fingers, that commonly every third blow had a lowd oath... | |
 | Mary Sheldon Barnes, Earl Barnes - United States - 1891 - 482 pages
...drinking, working or playing, they but doing as the President did himselfe, . . . within a weeke . . . 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... | |
 | John Smith - United States - 1895 - 620 pages
...drinking, working or playing, they but doing as the President did himselfe. All these things were carried so pleasantly as within a weeke they became Masters...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... | |
 | John Fiske - Maryland - 1897 - 374 pages
...doing as the President did himselfe. 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... | |
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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 to drowne the eccho... 
