 | 1839 - 612 pages
...the side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguished from the rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...extensive mimosa groves with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in ray saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across... | |
 | 1839 - 702 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chestnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...extensive mimosa groves, with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across his... | |
 | 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 - 606 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...extensive mimosa groves with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across his... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1839 - 440 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chesnut robe, and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...extensive mimosa groves, with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across his... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...him, should I dismount among the extensive mimosa »roves with which the landscape was now obscured. 1 sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...shuffle along; and being afraid of losing him, should I diemount, among the extensive mimosa groves, with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my... | |
 | 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
...side of the herd. The stately hull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...shoulder, with the right hand, and drew both triggers, but lie still continued to shuffle along, and being afraid of losing him, should I dismount, among the... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - 1842 - 418 pages
...The stately bull being readily distinguishable from the Hunting the Giraffe. rest by his dark chesnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...extensive mimosa groves, with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across his... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1849 - 544 pages
...side of the herd. The stately bull, being readily distinguishable from the rest by his dark chestnut robe and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of...and drew both triggers, but he still continued to shuttle along, and being afraid of losing him, should I dismount, among the extensive mimosa groves... | |
 | 1851 - 706 pages
...chestnut robe, and superior stature, I applied the muzzle of my rifle behind his dappled shoulder with my right hand, and drew both triggers; but he still continued...extensive mimosa groves with which the landscape was now obscured, I sat in my saddle, loading and firing behind the elbow, and then placing myself across his... | |
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I applied the muzzle of my rifle behind his dappled shoulder, with the right hand, and drew both triggers, but he still continued to shuffle along, and being afraid of losing him, should I dismount, among the extensive mimosa groves with which the landscape... 
