1 least the author has searched for it without success.
2 Encouraged and deluded by his success, David exerted all his powers to extend what he believed so holy an influence.
3 Over this sign of their success, they sent up a howl, like an opening from so many hounds who had recovered a lost trail.
4 After which, others again, in due succession, spoke to the maiden herself, in the low, soft language of tenderness and love.
5 The wind had fallen, and the waves were already rolling on the sandy beach beneath him, in a more regular and tempered succession.
6 Many different expedients were proposed by the elder warriors, in succession, to all of which Magua was a silent and respectful listener.
7 The scout delayed his departure to speak to the generous girl, whose breathing became lighter as she saw the success of her remonstrance.
8 Then the voice of the speaker fell, and lost the loud, animated tones of triumph with which he had enumerated their deeds of success and victory.
9 Contrary to the usages of the natives in the wantonness of their success they had respected, not only the persons of the trembling sisters, but his own.
10 During the foregoing address the progress of the speaker was too plainly read by those most interested in his success through the medium of the countenances of the men he addressed.
11 Heyward had given one of his pistols to Hawkeye, and together they rushed down a little declivity toward their foes; they discharged their weapons at the same instant, and equally without success.
12 The adventurous Huron raised his head above the shelter of the canoe, and, while it glided swiftly down the stream, he waved his hand, and gave forth the shout, which was the known signal of success.
13 Duncan caught from these natural accompaniments of the solitary scene a glimmering of hope; and he began to rally his faculties to renewed exertions, with something like a reviving confidence of success.
14 They were attentive but silent observers of the proceedings of the vanquished, failing in none of the stipulated military honors, and offering no taunt or insult, in their success, to their less fortunate foes.
15 The death-like looking figure of the Mohican, and the dark form of the Huron, gleamed before their eyes in such quick and confused succession, that the friends of the former knew not where to plant the succoring blow.
16 For near half an hour, not a syllable was uttered, or scarcely a look cast aside; a grave and meditative silence being the ordinary succession to every scene of violence and commotion among these beings, who were alike so impetuous and yet so self-restrained.
17 Then that success, which was already so well known, was officially announced; the favored band who were selected to guard the gates of the fort were detailed, and defiled before their chief; the signal of their approach was given, and all the usual preparations for a change of masters were ordered and executed directly under the guns of the contested works.
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