Now, as her eyes wandered absently over the far distance and dropped to the nearer hills, and on down to the cabin and the patch of cultivated ground, what was her horror to see three figures stealing with swift, gliding tread toward the fodder shed from above, where was no trail, only such rough and wild hillside as that by which she and her mother had climbed.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The broad river forms the foreground, flowing through fertile meadows and highly cultivated fields.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
Coming up to a little pier, we were cordially greeted by Governor Fenker, who escorted us to his home, where his wife, a cultivated young Danish woman, offered us sincere hospitality.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook