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... poor Robin Crusoe ! Where are you , Robin Crusoe ? Where have you been ? " I was at first dreadfully frightened , and started up in the greatest consternation , but no sooner were my eyes open than I saw my Poll sitting on the top of ...
... poor Robin Crusoe ! Where are you , Robin Crusoe ? Where have you been ? " I was at first dreadfully frightened , and started up in the greatest consternation , but no sooner were my eyes open than I saw my Poll sitting on the top of ...
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... until they should be ready for him . In a moment , however , the poor wretch started away from his murderers , and ran directly towards that part of the island where my dwelling stood . I ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 53.
... until they should be ready for him . In a moment , however , the poor wretch started away from his murderers , and ran directly towards that part of the island where my dwelling stood . I ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 53.
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... poor creature's life . I immediately ran down the ladder for my guns , and , taking a short route , I placed myself between the pursuers and their victim , crying aloud to the latter to come towards me , but he looked back as much ...
... poor creature's life . I immediately ran down the ladder for my guns , and , taking a short route , I placed myself between the pursuers and their victim , crying aloud to the latter to come towards me , but he looked back as much ...
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... poor servant , who could not conceive how this was done , looked so amazed that I thought he would have sunk down . He ripped up his waistcoat to feel whether he was not himself wounded , and , as I found out after- wards , thought I ...
... poor servant , who could not conceive how this was done , looked so amazed that I thought he would have sunk down . He ripped up his waistcoat to feel whether he was not himself wounded , and , as I found out after- wards , thought I ...
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... poor fellow stood thunderstruck , and I believe would have worshipped me and my gun . He would not touch the latter for several days afterwards , but would talk to it when he was by himself , and this , as I afterwards learned from him ...
... poor fellow stood thunderstruck , and I believe would have worshipped me and my gun . He would not touch the latter for several days afterwards , but would talk to it when he was by himself , and this , as I afterwards learned from him ...
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Seite 176 - To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Seite 85 - There is in every village a vacant dwelling, called the strangers' house. Here they are placed, while the old men go round from hut to hut, acquainting the inhabitants, that strangers are arrived, who are probably hungry and weary ; and every one sends them what he can spare of victuals, and skins to repose on. When the strangers are...
Seite 85 - I may as well go to the meeting too, and I went with him. There stood up a man in black, and began to talk to the people very angrily; I did not understand what he said, but perceiving that he...
Seite 128 - ... fate, from very shame. At this moment, to my great delight, there arrived from the fort an English officer, two artillery-men, and a Malay Captain ; and a pretty figure we should have cut without them, as the event will show. I was now quite ready to attack, and my gun came a minute afterwards. The whole scene which follows took place within an enclosure, about twenty feet square, formed, on three sides, by a strong fence of palmyra leaves, and on the fourth by the hut. At the door of this the...
Seite 144 - Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast.
Seite 143 - And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes, A visitor unwelcome, into scenes...
Seite 85 - If a white man in travelling through our country enters one of our cabins, we all treat him as I do you : we dry him if he is wet; we warm him if he is cold, and give him meat and drink that he may allay his thirst and hunger ; and we spread soft furs for him to rest and sleep on. We demand nothing in return. But if I go into a white man's house at Albany and ask for victuals and drink, they say : ' Where is your 79 money ? ' and if I have none, they say :
Seite 39 - I believe it was the first gun that had been fired there since the creation of the world.
Seite 128 - When a tiger springs on an elephant, the latter is generally able to shake him off under his feet, and then woe be to him ! The elephant either kneels on him and crushes him at once, or gives him a kick which breaks half his ribs, and sends him flying perhaps twenty paces. The elephants, however, are often dreadfully torn, and a large old tiger sometimes clings too fast to be thus dealt with. In this case it often happens that the elephant himself falls, from pain or from the hope of rolling on his...
Seite 49 - Wait on the Lord, and be of good cheer, and He shall strengthen thy heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.