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" Away aloft, and hand your courses,' he continued, in a shout ; ' roll them up, cheerily ; in with them, boys, cheerily ; in !' " The conscious seamen took their impulses from the tones of their commander. In a moment, twenty dark forms were... "
Cooper's Works - Page 243
by James Fenimore Cooper - 1855
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The London Magazine

English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...courses,' he continued, in a shout ; ' roll them up, cheerily ; in with them, boys, cheerily ; in !' " The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...rendered harmless, by securing them in tight rolls to thefr respective spars. The men descended as swiftly as they had mounted to the yards ; and then succeeded...
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The North American Review, Volume 27

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...tracing their curvilinear and wanton images over the murky volumes of the superincumbent clouds.' ' In a moment twenty dark forms were seen leaping up the rigging, and in another minute, the vast and powerful sheets of canvass were effectually rendered harmless,...
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The North American Review, Volume 27

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...tracing their curvilinear and wanton images over the murky volumes of the superincumbent clouds.' ' In a moment twenty dark forms were seen leaping up the rigging, and in another minute, the vast and powerful sheets of canvass were effectually rendered harmless,...
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The Red Rover: A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper - Newport (R.I.) - 1849 - 412 pages
...your courses," he continued in a shout; "roll them up cheerily; in with them, boys, cheerily; in?" The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...in another minute, the vast and powerful 'sheets of canvass were effectually rendered harmless by securing them in tight rolls to their respective spars....
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The Red Rover: A Tale

James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1852 - 532 pages
...your courses !" he continued in a shout; "roll them up, cheerily; in with them, boys, cheerily ; in !" The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...their commander. In a moment, twenty dark forms were leaping ap the rigging, with the alacrity of so many quadrupeds. In mother minute, the vast and powerful...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...yonr courses," he continued, in a shout; „roll them up, cheerily; in with them, boys, cheerily; in!" The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...many quadrupeds; and, in another minute, the vast and poweiful sheet? of canvas were effectually rendered liannless, by securing them in tight rolls to their...
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Works ....

James Fenimore Cooper - 1859 - 540 pages
...your courses" he continued in a shout ; " roll them up, cheerily ; in with them, boys, cheerily; in!" The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...their commander. In a moment, twenty dark forms were leaping up the rigging, with the alacrity of so many quadrupeds. In another minute, the vast and powerful...
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 364 pages
...your courses!" he continued in a shout; "roll them up, cheerily; in with them, boys, cheerily; in!" The conscious seamen took their impulses from the...their commander. In a moment, twenty dark forms were leaping up the rigging, with the alacrity of so many quadrupeds. In another minute, the vast and powerful...
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James Fenimore Cooper: Sea Tales (LOA #54): The Pilot / Red Rover

James Fenimore Cooper - Fiction - 1991 - 942 pages
...with the activity of so many quadrupeds. In another minute the vast and powerful sheets of canvass were effectually rendered harmless, by securing them...had mounted to the yards, and then succeeded another breathing pause. At this appalling moment a candle would have sent its flame perpendicularly towards...
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