Peter Parley's Book of Curiosities: Natural and Artificial : Illustrated with One Hundred EngravingsRichardson, Lord & Holbrook, and Waitt & Dow, 1832 - 224 pages |
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... pass over eighty - two feet and a half in a second . Others have trotted more than twenty - one miles in an hour . There have been mill - horses , which at one load , have carried thirteen measures , or nine hundred pounds of corn . The ...
... pass over eighty - two feet and a half in a second . Others have trotted more than twenty - one miles in an hour . There have been mill - horses , which at one load , have carried thirteen measures , or nine hundred pounds of corn . The ...
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... passing from one to another , and in climbing over the roofs of houses : on board , in hanging by his arms from the ropes , and in romping with the boys of the ship . He would entice them into play by striking them with his hand as they ...
... passing from one to another , and in climbing over the roofs of houses : on board , in hanging by his arms from the ropes , and in romping with the boys of the ship . He would entice them into play by striking them with his hand as they ...
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... Passing quietly along the same side of the street , when arrived at the tailor's shop , he put in his trunk at the window , and spirted out the water with such prodigious force , that the offender and his journey- men were blown off the ...
... Passing quietly along the same side of the street , when arrived at the tailor's shop , he put in his trunk at the window , and spirted out the water with such prodigious force , that the offender and his journey- men were blown off the ...
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... passing along the banks . I counted fifteen at one time sporting on the surface ; and my servant Columbus shot one of them in the head , when he gave so loud a roar , as he buried himself in the lake , that all the others disappeared in ...
... passing along the banks . I counted fifteen at one time sporting on the surface ; and my servant Columbus shot one of them in the head , when he gave so loud a roar , as he buried himself in the lake , that all the others disappeared in ...
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... pass . The man , who understood what the animal wanted , showed him a penny , and pointed to his master , who stood at the street door and saw what was going on . The dog immediately supplicated his master by many humble gestures and ...
... pass . The man , who understood what the animal wanted , showed him a penny , and pointed to his master , who stood at the street door and saw what was going on . The dog immediately supplicated his master by many humble gestures and ...
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Page 144 - But the distant finishing which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character. It is a true contrast to the foreground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate of the calm below.
Page 178 - Though the sides of this bridge are provided in some parts with a parapet of fixed rocks, yet few men have resolution to walk to them, and look over into the abyss. You involuntarily fall on your hands and feet, creep to the parapet, and peep over it. Looking down from this height about a minute, gave me a violent head ach.
Page 176 - Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds — His path was rugged and sore, Through tangled juniper beds of reeds, Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds, And man never trod before. And when on the earth he sunk to sleep, If slumber his eyelids knew, He lay where the deadly vine doth weep Its venomous tear and nightly steep The flesh with blistering dew!
Page 177 - He saw the lake, and a meteor bright Quick over its surface play'd— " Welcome," he said,
Page 71 - In his domesticated state, when he commences his career of song, it is impossible to stand by uninterested. He whistles for the dog ; Caesar starts up, wags his tail, and runs to meet his master. He squeaks out like a hurt chicken ; and the hen hurries about, with hanging wings and bristled feathers, clucking to protect her injured brood. The barking of the dog, the mewing of the cat, the creaking of a passing wheelbarrow, follow with great truth and rapidity.
Page 178 - If the view from the top be painful and intolerable, that from below is delightful in an equal extreme. It is impossible for the emotions arising from the sublime to be felt beyond what they are here; so beautiful an arch, so elevated, so light, and springing as it were up to heaven!
Page 60 - Wara billi billi\" ("A very large lion!") said he, and made signs for me to ride away. But my horse was too much fatigued; so we rode slowly past the bush from which the animal had given us the alarm. Not seeing anything myself, however, I thought my guide had been mistaken, when the Foulah suddenly put his hand to his mouth, exclaiming, "Soubah an allahi\
Page 68 - ... change of seasons; as, in a few minutes, he can pass from summer to winter, from the lower to the higher regions of the atmosphere, the abode of eternal cold; and from thence descend, at will, to the torrid or the arctic regions of the earth.
Page 32 - I am going to yield thee up ? To Europeans, who will tie thee close, — who will beat thee, — who will render thee miserable. Return with me, my beauty, my jewel, and rejoice the hearts of my children.
Page 177 - And the boat return'd no more. But oft, from the Indian hunter's camp, This lover and maid so true Are seen at the hour of midnight damp. To cross the Lake by a fire-fly lamp, And paddle their white canoe ! TO THE MARCHIONESS DOWAGER OF DONEGALL.