| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 606 páginas
...hurried with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. ' When I leisurely contemplated the massive...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet; the whole being equally... | |
| 1839 - 702 páginas
...bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When leisurely contemplated, the massive frame before me...strength. The extreme height, from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof, of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 páginas
...beside the noble prize I had won. 1 When I leisurely contemplated the massive frame before me, seemin; as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet; the "hole being equally... | |
| Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 páginas
...hurraed with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When I leisurely contemplated the massive...matter of astonishment that a bullet discharged from adistance of eighty or ninety yards should have been attended with little effect upon such amazing... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 páginas
...I had won. *When I had leisurely contemplated the massive frame before me, seeming as though it haj been cast in a mould of brass, and protected by a...thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a ballet, discharged from a distance of eighty or ninety yarda, should have been attended with little... | |
| Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - 442 páginas
...hurraed with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When I leisurely contemplated the massive...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
| Wonders - 1847 - 444 páginas
...seventeen discharges of the deadly rifle. " This was not," he says, " a matter of astonishment when I contemplated the massive frame before me, seeming...of brass ; and protected by a hide of an inch and half in thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a bullet discharged from a distance... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 páginas
...in a mould of brass, and protected by a hide of an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer a matter of astonishment that a bullet, discharged from...strength. The extreme height, from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 706 páginas
...massive form before me, seeming as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and wrapt in a hide an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer...attended with little effect upon such amazing strength. " Two hours were passed in completing a drawing, and Piet still not making his appearance, I cut off... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 páginas
...with delight, beside the noble prize that I had won. "While I leisurely contemplated the massive form before me, seeming as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and wrapped in a hide an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a bullet... | |
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