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1  The salt lake gave us its fish, the wood its deer, and the air its birds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  The foremost Indian bounded like a stricken deer, and fell headlong among the clefts of the island.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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3  "There is but one deer, and he is dead," said the Indian, bending his body till his ear nearly touched the earth.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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4  He was without his favorite weapon, and his arms were even bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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5  'Tis enough," returned the father, glancing his eye toward the setting sun; "they shall be driven like deer from their bushes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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6  "An Indian is a mortal to be felt afore he is seen," returned the scout, ascending the rock, and throwing the deer carelessly down.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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7  He met us hard by, in our outward march to ambush his advance, and scattered us, like driven deer, through the defile, to the shores of Horican.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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8  The biggest coward I ever knew as called Lyon; and his wife, Patience, would scold you out of hearing in less time than a hunted deer would run a rod.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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9  Extinguished brands were lying around a spring, the offals of a deer were scattered about the place, and the trees bore evident marks of having been browsed by the horses.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
10  In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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11  They then approached, though with slow and cautious steps, pausing every instant to look at the building, like startled deer whose curiosity struggled powerfully with their awakened apprehensions for the mastery.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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12  A beaten path, such as those made by the periodical passage of the deer, wound through a little glen at no great distance, and struck the river at the point where the white man and his red companions had posted themselves.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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13  Bounding forward like a deer, he sprang up the side of a little acclivity, a few rods in advance, and stood, exultingly, over a spot of fresh earth, that looked as though it had been recently upturned by the passage of some heavy animal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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14  We are not about to start on a squirrel hunt, or to drive a deer into the Horican, but to outlie for days and nights, and to stretch across a wilderness where the feet of men seldom go, and where no bookish knowledge would carry you through harmless.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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15  His moccasins were ornamented after the gay fashion of the natives, while the only part of his under dress which appeared below the hunting-frock was a pair of buckskin leggings, that laced at the sides, and which were gartered above the knees, with the sinews of a deer.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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16  The Delawares, who had believed their enemy dead, uttered their exclamation of surprise, and were following with speed and clamor, like hounds in open view of the deer, when a shrill and peculiar cry from the scout instantly changed their purpose, and recalled them to the summit of the hill.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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17  In a few moments a colt was seen gliding, like a fallow deer, among the straight trunks of the pines; and, in another instant, the person of the ungainly man, described in the preceding chapter, came into view, with as much rapidity as he could excite his meager beast to endure without coming to an open rupture.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
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