Travellers' Tales: A Book of MarvelsG. Routledge, 1883 - 358 pages |
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... young Christian children into their houses , and there crucifying them in mockery of our Saviour's passion . Large numbers were put to death on this monstrous charge , and but for the interference of the sovereigns , to whom the Jews ...
... young Christian children into their houses , and there crucifying them in mockery of our Saviour's passion . Large numbers were put to death on this monstrous charge , and but for the interference of the sovereigns , to whom the Jews ...
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... the habit of throwing whole carcases of newly - skinned sheep , to which the diamonds adhered ; and the lumps of meat , being carried up by the eagles , to feed their young with , the diamonds 26 Travellers ' Tales .
... the habit of throwing whole carcases of newly - skinned sheep , to which the diamonds adhered ; and the lumps of meat , being carried up by the eagles , to feed their young with , the diamonds 26 Travellers ' Tales .
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A Book of Marvels Henry Cadwallader Adams. eagles , to feed their young with , the diamonds were brought up with them . He resolves to escape from the ravine by the same agency , which had brought him into it . He fills his pockets with ...
A Book of Marvels Henry Cadwallader Adams. eagles , to feed their young with , the diamonds were brought up with them . He resolves to escape from the ravine by the same agency , which had brought him into it . He fills his pockets with ...
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... young man and said : ' Shame upon you , why do you not perform your promise ? Life is at best but short , and alto- gether uncertain ; and for this you are willing to stain your reputation . ' The young man , with tears in his eyes ...
... young man and said : ' Shame upon you , why do you not perform your promise ? Life is at best but short , and alto- gether uncertain ; and for this you are willing to stain your reputation . ' The young man , with tears in his eyes ...
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... young man's release if he will agree . Accordingly he persuades the people to allow the tomb to be made like the tombs in the young man's country , in which there is always an aperture to let in light and air . They agree , after some ...
... young man's release if he will agree . Accordingly he persuades the people to allow the tomb to be made like the tombs in the young man's country , in which there is always an aperture to let in light and air . They agree , after some ...
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Page 325 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Page 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 156 - Mebalwe fired at him before I could, and the ball struck the rock on which the animal was sitting. He bit at the spot struck, as a dog does at a stick or stone thrown at him ; then leaping away, broke through the opening circle and escaped unhurt. The men were afraid to attack him, perhaps on account of their belief in witchcraft.
Page 268 - Quito, are about fourteen feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and the smallest only eight.
Page 157 - Creator for lessening the pain of death. Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head...
Page 156 - Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat. The shock produced a stupor similar to that which seems to be felt by a mouse after the first shake of the cat. It caused a sort of dreaminess, in which there was no sense of pain nor feeling of terror, though quite conscious of all that was happening.
Page 286 - Indians, provided with harpoons and long slender reeds, surround the pool closely ; and some climb upon the trees, the branches of which extend horizontally over the surface of the water. By their wild cries, and the length of their reeds, they prevent the horses from running away and reaching the bank of the pool. The eels, stunned by the noise, defend themselves by the repeated discharge of their electric batteries.
Page 122 - For the LORD thy GOD bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey ; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it ; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.
Page ii - Club who shall not have travelled out of the British Islands to a distance of at least 500 miles from London in a direct line.
Page 156 - Seeing we could not get them to kill one of the lions, we bent our footsteps toward the village ; in going round the end of the hill, however, I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front. Being about thirty yards off', I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. The men then called out, ' He is shot, he is shot 1 ' Others cried, ' He has been shot by another man too; let us go to him!