 | Allan Cunningham, Charles Mackay - 1879 - 628 lehte
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master...from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
 | Archibald R. Adamson - 1879 - 298 lehte
...sunshine. Let him, describe his circumstances :— " ' Hungry ruin had me in the wind,' " says he. " I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 lehte
...He grew suddenly famous, altered his resolution, and hastened to Edinburgh with anticipating heart: I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1879 - 566 lehte
...qualifications for a place among those who nave lost the chart. and mistaken the reckoning of rationality. I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail; as some illadvised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1881 - 700 lehte
...This sum eame very aeasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want ol money, to proeure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the priee of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took я ateerage passage in the first ship that was to sail... | |
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1882 - 380 lehte
...nearly twenty pounds. This snm came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master...been for some days skulking from covert to covert, tinder all the terrors of a jail ; as some ill-advised people had uncoupled, the merciless pack of... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1882 - 374 lehte
...nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master...sail from the Clyde ; for * Hungry ruin had me in the wind.1 " I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ;... | |
 | 1882 - 780 lehte
...sum. came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself, for want of money, to procure a passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas,...the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steernge passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for ' Hungry ruin had mo in tho... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1882 - 720 lehte
...from Blacklock, which gave a new turn to affairs. I must give the matter in the poet's own words : "I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
 | 1883 - 778 lehte
...seasonably, as 1 was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money, to procure a passage. As soon as 1 was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me...from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail, as some ill-advised people had uncoupled the merciless pack of the law at my heels. I had taken... | |
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This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to... 
