| Pierce Egan - 1832 - 426 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...unpleasant affair ; and they made another attempt to persuade me to let them go for a gun. I smiled in a good-natured manner, and made a feint to cut them...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 페이지
...uupleasant affair ; and they made another attempt to persuade me to let them go for a gun. I smiled in a good-natured manner, and made a feint to cut them...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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