1 Accordingly, he paused, and spoke in words as kind and friendly as if he were addressing more intelligent beings.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 27 2 In such circumstances, common prudence dictated that Heyward and his companions should imitate a caution that proceeded from so intelligent a source.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 7 3 But when Le Renard raised his voice in a long and intelligible whoop, it was answered by a spontaneous yell from the mouth of every Indian within hearing of the sound.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 9 4 Though the figurative language of David was not very intelligible, the sincere and steady expression of his eye, and the glow of his honest countenance, were not easily mistaken.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 22 5 One of their number now called aloud, in words that were far from appalling, though not more intelligible to those for whose ears they were intended, than their expressive yells.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 23 6 The strains rose just so loud as to become intelligible, and then grew fainter and more trembling, until they finally sank on the ear, as if borne away by a passing breath of wind.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 33 7 Uncas himself watched the effect of his brief explanation with intelligent eyes, and gradually dropped the air of authority he had assumed, as he perceived that his auditors were content.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 30 8 After a short conference, the plan was matured, and rendered more intelligible to the several parties; the different signals were appointed, and the chiefs separated, each to his allotted station.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 31 9 David gazed about him, at the fierce and wild-looking chiefs, in mute wonder; but assured by the presence of faces that he knew, he soon rallied his faculties so far as to make an intelligent reply.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 31 10 The tribe consented to act with deliberation, and with one voice they committed the direction of the whole affair to the government of the chief who had suggested such wise and intelligible expedients.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 27 11 It is impossible to describe the music of their language, while thus engaged in laughter and endearments, in such a way as to render it intelligible to those whose ears have never listened to its melody.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 19 12 The scout, to whom alone, of all the white men, the words were intelligible, suffered himself to be a little aroused from his meditative posture, and bent his face aside, to catch their meaning, as the girls proceeded.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 33 13 In such cases he made use of English, broken and imperfect, but sufficiently intelligible, and which he rendered so mild and musical, by his deep, guttural voice, that it never failed to cause both ladies to look up in admiration and astonishment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 6 14 After examining the piece with an intelligent eye, and opening and shutting the pan some ten or fifteen times, and trying sundry other equally important experiments on the lock, he turned to the boy and demanded with great manifestations of kindness, if he was hurt.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 31 15 The scout had stood, while making his observations, sheltered by a brake, and his companions still lay in the bed of the ravine, through which the smaller stream debouched; but on hearing his low, though intelligible, signal the whole party stole up the bank, like so many dark specters, and silently arranged themselves around him.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 32 16 After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extremity of the portage.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperGet Context In CHAPTER 1 17 Indeed, so very distinct and intelligible were the devices of the quadruped, that even the most experienced observer would have been at a loss to account for its actions, until the moment when the party entered the forest, when the whole would have been explained, by seeing the entire animal issue from the lodge, uncasing, by the act, the grave features of Chingachgook from his mask of fur.
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