 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1826 - 850 páginas
...a gun. I smiled in a good-natured manner, and made a feint to cut them down with the weapon I liad in my hand. This was all the answer I made to their...hold of the lance the moment I struck the snake, and thai (be other must attend my movements. U now only remained to take their cutlasses from them, for... | |
 | Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 páginas
...silence, and retreated very slowly, making a sign to the negroes to do the same. We were at this time about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged...behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay bold of the lance the moment I struck the snake, and that the other must attend my movements. It now... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1845 - 900 páginas
...negroes to do the same. We were at this time about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged them behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay...cutlasses from them ; for I was sure if I did not do this, they would be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin.... | |
 | Robert Cruikshank - 1845 - 738 páginas
...silence, and retreated very slowly, making a sign to the negroes to do the same. We were at this time about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged...me to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the stiaka, and that the other must attend my movements. It now only remained to take their cutlasses from... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1857 - 512 páginas
...read in the face of the negroes that they considered this as a very unpleasant affair ; and they made another attempt to persuade me to let them go for...be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, rad thus for ever spoil his skin. On taking their cutlasses from them, if I might judge from their... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1861 - 354 páginas
...time about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged them behind me, and told him who stood next me to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the...cutlasses from them ; for I was sure if I did not do this they would be tempted to" strike the snake in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin.... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - 1869 - 610 páginas
...time about twenty yards from the snake's den, I now ranged them behind me, and told him who stood next me. to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the...cutlasses from them ; for I was sure if I did not do this, they would be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, and thus forever spoil his skin.... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 282 páginas
...negroes to do the same. We were at this time .about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged them behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay...cutlasses from them ; for I was sure if I did not do this, they would be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin.... | |
 | 1881 - 302 páginas
...negroes to do the same. We were at this time about twenty yards from the snake's den. I now ranged them behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay...cutlasses from them ; for I was sure if I did not do this, they would be tempted to strike the snake in time of danger, and thus for ever spoil his skin.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 220 páginas
...read in the face of the negroes, that they considered this a very uupleasant affair ; and they made another attempt to persuade me to let them go for...me to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the snuke, and that the other must attend my movements. It now only remained to take their cutlasses from... | |
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I now ranged the negroes behind me, and told him who stood next to me to lay hold of the lance the moment I struck the snake, and that the other must attend my movements. It now only remained to take their cutlasses from them ; for I was sure, if I did... 
