 | Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...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,... | |
 | 1826 - 626 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...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.... | |
 | 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 דפים
...hat, full in his jaws. He was stunned and confounded by the blow, and ere he could 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, and marched off with him as my lawful prize.... | |
 | 1826 - 488 דפים
...He was stunned and 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 possibly bite me. I then allowed him to coil himself round my body, and marched off with him as my... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1828 - 362 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...prize. He pressed me hard, but not alarmingly so. In the mean time, Daddy Quashi having found the umbrella, and having heard the noise which the fray... | |
 | 1829 - 392 דפים
...master of, I drove my fist, shielded with my hat, full in his jaws. He was first stunned and 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. 1 then allowed him... | |
 | 1834 - 536 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...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 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...throat with both hands, in such a position that he conld not bite me; I then allowed him to coil himself round my body, and marched off with him as my... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 דפים
...his jaws. He was 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 דפים
...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 he could recover himself, I had...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,... | |
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... about a yard from the ground, as if to ask me what business I had to take 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... 
