 | Sir William Edward Parry - 1824 - 578 lehte
...into the snow to obstruct their progress : and having thus succeeded in stopping them, he stands^p with one leg before the foremost cross-piece of the...over each dog's head, he has made them all lie down. H« then takes care not to quit his position: so that should the dogs • set on' he is thrown apon... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 328 lehte
...his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small, and the journey homeward, the dogs are not to be delayed : the driver is, therefore, obliged to dig...cross-piece of the sledge, till, by means of laying his whip gently VOL. II. D over each dog's head, he has made them all lie down. " With heavy loads,... | |
 | T B. M - 1844 - 274 lehte
...the sledge, he calls out " Wo woa ! " as our carters do. When he has succeeded in stopping his dogs, he stands up, with one leg before the foremost cross-piece of the sledge, and laying the whip gently over each dog's head, he makes them all lie down. When we consider the uses... | |
 | James Rennie - 1839 - 346 lehte
...delayed; the driver is therefore obliged to dig his heels in the snow to obstruct their progress, and, D having thus succeeded in stopping them, he stands...sledge, till, by means of laying the whip gently over the dog's head, he has made them all lie down He then takes care not to quit his position, so that,... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 350 lehte
...be thus delayed ; the driver is, therefore, obliged to dig his heels into the snow, and when he has thus succeeded in stopping them, he stands up with...leg before the foremost cross-piece of the sledge, and he lays the whip gently over each dog's head, until he has made them all lie down. But he takes... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 lehte
...altogether on his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small, and the journey homeward, the dogs are net to be thus delayed ; the driver is therefore obliged...them all lie down. He then takes care not to quit liis position ; so that should the dogs set off, he is thrown upon the sledge, instead of being left... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1853 - 332 lehte
...purpose using certain words, as the carters do with us, to make the dogs turn more to the right or left. When the driver wishes to stop the sledge, he calls...means of laying the whip gently over each dog's head, ha has made them all lie down. He then takes care not to quit his position, so that, should the dogs... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1857 - 756 lehte
...delayed ; the driver is therefore obliged to dig his heels into the snow to obstruct their progress, *nd having thus succeeded in stopping them, he 'stands up with one leg before the foremost cross piece of the sledge, till, by means of laying the whip gently over each Dog's head, he has made... | |
 | Illustrated sketches - 1864 - 364 lehte
...stop the sledge, he calls out "Wo woa!" as our carters do. When he has succeeded in stopping his dogs, he stands up, with one leg before the foremost cross-piece of the sledge, and laying the whip gently over each dog's head, he makes them all lie down. When we consider the uses... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1869 - 368 lehte
...Wo, woa' exactly as our carters do ; but the attention paid to this command depends altogether upon his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small,...cross-piece of the sledge, till, by means of laying the whip over each dog's head, he has made them lie down. He then takes care not to quit his position, so that,... | |
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Wo, woa," exactly as our carters do, but the attention paid to this command depends altogether on his ability to enforce it. If the weight is small and the journey homeward, the dogs are not to be thus delayed ; the driver is therefore obliged to dig... 
