 | William Howitt - 1847 - 430 sider
...softest places in that vast pier ! liow he avoids every flinty grain ! How he economises his physical powers ! resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How every motion is wálched from below ! There stand his father, mother, brother, and sister on the very spot where, if... | |
 | Eliza W. Smith - 1848 - 254 sider
...softest places in that vast pier ! How he avoids every flinty grain! How he economizes his physical powers ! resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How every motion is watched 99 from below ! There stand his father, mother, brother, and sister, on the very spot where, if he... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 sider
...softest places in that vast pier ! How he avoids every flinty grain ! How he economizes his physical powers, resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How...spot, where, if he falls, he will not fall alone. 8. The sun is now half way down the west. The lad has made fifty additional niches in that mighty wall,... | |
 | Elihu Burritt - 1854 - 400 sider
...softest places in that vast pier ! How he avoids every flinty grain ! How he economizes his physical powers ! resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How...from below! There stand his father, mother, brother, sister, on the very spot where, if he falls, he will not fall alone. The sun is now half-way down the... | |
 | 1855 - 902 sider
...softest places ia that vast pier ! How he avoids every flinty grain ! How he economizes his physical powers ! resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How every motion is watched from below I There stand his father, mother, brother, sister, on the very spot where, if he falls, he will not... | |
 | 1857 - 280 sider
...blade! How anxiously he selects the softest place in the vast pire ! How he economises his physical powers, resting a moment at each gain he cuts. How...brother, and sister, on the very spot, where, if he fal>, he will not fall alone. Minutes of almost eternal length roll on; and there are hundreds standing... | |
 | Worthy Putnam - 1858 - 420 sider
...softest places in that vast pier ! How he avoids every flinty grain ! How he economizes his physical powers, resting a moment at each gain he cuts ! How...very spot where, if he falls, he will not fall alone. 11. The sun is now half-way down the west. The lad has made fifty additional niches in that mighty... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1859 - 422 sider
...softest places in that vast pier! How he avoids every flinty grain! How he economizes ' his physical powers^ resting a moment at each gain he cuts ! How...very spot where, if he falls, he will not fall alone. 11. The sun is now half-way down the west. The lad has made fifty additional niches in that mighty... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 sider
...physical powers I resting a moment at each gain he cuts ! 13. How every motion is watched from below I There stand his father, mother, brother and sister,...if he falls, he will not fall alone. The sun is now half way down the west. The lad has made fifty additional niches in that mighty wall, and now finds... | |
 | 1860 - 344 sider
...KEPOSITORY. and sister, on the very spot where, if bo falls ho will not fall alone. Tie sun is now half way down the west. The lad has made fifty additional niches...in that mighty wall, and now finds himself directly Qnder the middle of that vast arch of rocks, earth, and trees. He must cut his way in a new direction,... | |
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He cuts another niche, and another foot is added to the hundreds that remove him from the reach of human help from below. How carefully he uses his wasting blade... 
