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1  We have found that which may be good or evil to us, as heaven disposes.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
2  But she is a saint in heaven, sir; and it ill becomes one whose foot rests on the grave to mourn a lot so blessed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16
3  But, concerning the life that is to come, major; I have heard preachers say, in the settlements, that heaven was a place of rest.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
4  My young women have done enough," he said: "the spirit of the pale face has no need of food or raiment, their gifts being according to the heaven of their color.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33
5  When in full view of the Delawares he stopped, and made a gesture of amity, by throwing his arm upward toward heaven, and then letting it fall impressively on his breast.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28
6  The Dutch landed, and gave my people the fire-water; they drank until the heavens and the earth seemed to meet, and they foolishly thought they had found the Great Spirit.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
7  There are always some honest men in every nation, though heaven knows, too, that they are scarce among the Maquas, to look down an upstart when he brags ag'in the face of reason.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
8  From that moment the yells in the forest once more ceased, the fire was suffered to decline, and all eyes, those of friends as well as enemies, became fixed on the hopeless condition of the wretch who was dangling between heaven and earth.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8
9  His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended scalding tears rolled out of fountains that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks, that had oftener felt the storms of heaven than any testimonials of weakness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
10  Tell the Sagamore I never lost sight of him in my greatest trouble; and, as for you, think of me sometimes when on a lucky trail, and depend on it, boy, whether there be one heaven or two, there is a path in the other world by which honest men may come together again.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
11  Then, holding the brand, he crossed a deep, narrow chasm in the rocks which ran at right angles with the passage they were in, but which, unlike that, was open to the heavens, and entered another cave, answering to the description of the first, in every essential particular.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
12  Her bloom gave place to the paleness of death; her soft and melting eyes grew hard, and seemed contracting with horror; while those hands, which she had raised, clasped in each other, toward heaven, dropped in horizontal lines before her, the fingers pointed forward in convulsed motion.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9
13  Come, come," returned Hawkeye, uncasing his honest countenance, the better to assure the wavering confidence of his companion; "you may see a skin, which, if it be not as white as one of the gentle ones, has no tinge of red to it that the winds of the heaven and the sun have not bestowed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
14  For an instant the mother stood, like a statue of despair, looking wildly down at the unseemly object, which had so lately nestled in her bosom and smiled in her face; and then she raised her eyes and countenance toward heaven, as if calling on God to curse the perpetrator of the foul deed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
15  Behind them, the curvature of the banks soon bounded the view by the same dark and wooded outline; but in front, and apparently at no great distance, the water seemed piled against the heavens, whence it tumbled into caverns, out of which issued those sullen sounds that had loaded the evening atmosphere.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5
16  The solitary and arid blades of grass arose from the passing gusts fearfully perceptible; the bold and rocky mountains were too distinct in their barrenness, and the eye even sought relief, in vain, by attempting to pierce the illimitable void of heaven, which was shut to its gaze by the dusky sheet of ragged and driving vapor.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
17  During this display of emotions so natural in their situation, Hawkeye, whose vigilant distrust had satisfied itself that the Hurons, who disfigured the heavenly scene, no longer possessed the power to interrupt its harmony, approached David, and liberated him from the bonds he had, until that moment, endured with the most exemplary patience.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12
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