 ... liberties with his tail. I let him come, hissing and open-mouthed, within two feet of my face, and then, with all the force I was master of, I drove my fist, shielded by my hat, full in his jaws. He was stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere...  Wanderings in South America, the north-west of the United States, and the ... - Página 36por Charles Waterton - 1882Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1826 - 626 páginas
...stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me...prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so.' — pp. 206, 207. And now for the second exhibition of our Yorkshire gentleman — mounted on a crocodile.... | |
 | 1826 - 488 páginas
...confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself I had seized him by the throat, with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me....body, and marched off with him as my lawful prize. TO NURSES AND MOTHERS. It may be useful to know, and will be the means of alleviating much pain, '... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 páginas
...recover himself, 1 had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not hite me ; I then allowed him to coil himself round my body,...prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so.' — pp. 206, 207. And now for the second exhibition of our Yorkshire gentleman — mounted on a crocodile.... | |
 | 1829 - 392 páginas
...himself, I had seized him by the throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me. 1 then allowed him to coil himself round my body, and marched off with him as my lawful prize." A NEW METAL. It is stated in the Bath paper that a great quantity of base silver is in circulation.... | |
 | 1834 - 536 páginas
...stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position, that he could not bite...then allowed him to coil himself round my body, and inarched off with him as my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so. In the mean time,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 páginas
...he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he conld not bite me; I then allowed him to coil himself round...lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so.'—(pp. 206, 207.) When the body of the large snake began to smell, the vultures immediately arrived.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 páginas
...stunned and nmfounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I liarl sri/,nd his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me ; I then allowed him to coil him•ч:Ц' round my body, and marched off with him a« my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not... | |
 | 1846 - 404 páginas
...stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could recover himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me...him as my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmmgly so. In the meantime, Daddy Quashi having returned, and hearing the noise which the fray occasioned,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 páginas
...bands, in such a position thai he could not bile me ; I then allowed him to coil liiinaelf round EOT body, and marched off with him as my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly BO.'— (pp. 206, JOT.) thing which has not the relish of putrescence and flavour of death. The following... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 páginas
...stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could reccver himself, I had seized his throat with both hands, in such a position that he could not bite me ; I then allowed him to coll himself round my body, and marched off with him as my lawful prize. He pressed me hard, but not... | |
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