 | History - 1790 - 522 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flefli in the dark in fafety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace, and it was not my duty to lie there, in going acrofs the fquare from the king's houfe, not many hundred yards dînant, I hare been appre henfive... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace,...in going across the square from the king's house, riot many hundred yards distant, I have been apprehensive lest they should bite me in the leg. They... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Civilization - 1803 - 362 pages
...kept me late in the palace, I have been apprehensive, in going across the square, lest these animals should bite me in the leg. They grunted in great numbers about me, although I was surrounded with armed men, who seldom passed a night without wounding or slaughtering some of them. " One night in... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 524 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace, and it was my duty not to lie there, in going across the park to the king's house, not many hundred yards distant,... | |
 | American Colonization Society - African Americans - 1824 - 862 pages
...devoured, with the exception of some of the ass's bones ! ANECDOTE TOLD BY BRUCE. — Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace,...there, in going across the square from the king's, not many hundred yards distant, I have been apprehensive they would bite me in the leg. They grunted... | |
 | William Eastmead - Caves - 1824 - 536 pages
...mountains, transformed bv magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the King had kept me late in the palace, and it was my duty not to lie there, in going across the park to the King's house, not many hundred yards distant,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 382 pages
...night, when the king had kept me late in the palace, on going across the square from the king's house, I have been apprehensive lest they should bite me in the leg. They grunted in great numbers around me, although I was surrounded with several armed men, who seldom passed a night without wounding... | |
 | Michael Russell - Ethiopia - 1833 - 342 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace,...many hundred yards distant, I have been apprehensive they would bite me in the leg. They grunted in great numbers around me, though I was surrounded with... | |
 | Michael Russell - Africa, East - 1833 - 456 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace,...many hundred yards distant, I have been apprehensive they would bite me in the leg. They grunted in great numbers around me, though I was surrounded with... | |
 | Michael Russell - Ethiopia - 1833 - 364 pages
...mountains, transformed by magic, and come down to eat human flesh in the dark in safety. Many a time in the night, when the king had kept me late in the palace,...the king's house, not many hundred yards distant, I nave been apprehensive they would bite me in the leg. They grunted in great numbers around me, though... | |
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