| 1839 - 612 pages
...lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought girarte. Putting spurs to nly horse, and desiring the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of all the mammifères, whom i Im- to meet free on his native plains has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries... | |
| 1839 - 572 pages
...Putting spurs to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself, half-choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest...velocity, his long swanlike neck keeping time to the eccentnc motion of his stilt-like legs ; his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stiltlike legs — his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert with... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1839 - 656 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, (he long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of his stilt-like legs — his ample black tail curled above his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert with... | |
| 1839 - 654 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...the lot of few of the votaries of the chase. Sailing bofore me with incredible velocity, his long swan-like neck keeping time to the eccentric motion of... | |
| Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 pages
...time. It passed rapidly among the trees, above the topmost branches of many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately,...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of all the Mamtniferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the votaries... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1839 - 654 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe. — Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...excitement, rattling at the heels of the tallest of a!l the mammiferes, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains, has fallen to the lot of few of the... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...graceful head nodded like some lofty pine—it was the stately, the long-sought girafe. Putting spars to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow,...presently found myself half choked with excitement, raiding at the heels of the tallest of all the Mammifères, whom thus to meet, free on his native plains,... | |
| Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1844 - 442 pages
...many of which its graceful head nodded like some lofty pine — it was the stately, the longsought giraffe. Putting spurs to my horse, and directing...chase. Sailing before me with incredible velocity, his Inno- swan-like neck keenino' time to the eccentric motion his back, and whisking in ludicrous concert... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 706 pages
...pine, all doubt was in another moment at an end — it was the stately, the long-sought giraffe, and putting spurs to my horse, and directing the Hottentots to follow, I presently found myself half-choked with excitement, rattling at the heels of an animal which to me had been a stranger even... | |
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