| 1839 - 612 pages
...swerved from his course, nor slackened liis pace, and hail pushed on so far a-liead during the time 1 was reloading, that, after remounting, I had some difficulty in even keeping sight of him among the trees. Closing, however, I repeated the dose on the other quarter, and spurred along my horse,... | |
| 1839 - 654 pages
...a wall; he neither swerved from his course nor slackened his pace, and had pushed on so far a-head during the time I was re-loading, that, after re-mounting,...the giraffe now flagging at each stride, until, as 1 was coming up hand over hand, and success seemed certain, down I came headlong, — my horse having... | |
| 1839 - 664 pages
...a wall; he neither swerved from his course nor slackened his pace, and had pushed on so far a-hcad during the time I was re-loading, that, after re-mounting,...trees. Closing again, however, I repeated the dose ou the other quarter, and spurred along my horse, ever ami anon sinking to his fetlock; the giraffe... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...a wall : he neither swerved from his course nor slackened his pace, and had pushed on so far ahead during the time I was reloading, that, after remounting,...difficulty in even keeping sight of him amongst the tree». Closing again, however, I repeated the dose on the other quarter, and spurred along my horse,... | |
| 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
...slackened his pace, and had push< on so far ahead during the time I was reloading, that, after remounting, had some difficulty in even keeping sight of him amongst the trees. Closii again, however, I repeated the dose on the other quarter, and spurn along my horse, ever and... | |
| Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1851 - 854 pages
...fired at a wall ; he neither swerved from his course nor slackened his pace, and pushed on so far ahead during the time I was reloading, that, after remounting,...I had some difficulty in even keeping sight of him among the tn os. Closing again, however, I repeated the doso on the other quarter, and spurred my horse... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1851 - 706 pages
...the other quarter, and spurred my horse along, ever and anon sinking to his fetlock — the girarte now flagging at each stride, — until, as I was coming up hand over hand, and success seemed certain, the cup was suddenly dashed from my lips, and down I came headlong — my horse having fallen into... | |
| Sir William Cornwallis Harris - 1852 - 492 pages
...wall : he neither swerved from his course, nor slackened his pace, and had pushed on so far a-head during the time I was reloading, that after remounting,...I had some difficulty in even keeping sight of him among the trees. Closing again, however, I repeated the dose on the other quarter, and spurred along... | |
| 1853 - 498 pages
...neither swerved from his course or slackened his pace, and pushed on so far ahead during the time that I was reloading, that, after remounting, I had some difficulty in even keeping sight of him among the trees. Closing again, however, I repeated the dose on the other quarter, and spurred my horse... | |
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