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" When we grew hungry, we threw stones among the thick branches of the chestnut trees which overshadowed us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish; and when this... "
An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island; and Memoirs of ... - Page 286
by James Boswell - 1768 - 382 pages
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An Account of Corsica: The Journal of a Tour to that Island : and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 1768 - 424 pages
...cheftnut trees which overfhadowed us, and in that .* manner we brought down a fho wer of chefl> nuts with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating...this made us thirfty, we lay down by the fide of the firfl brook, put our mouths to the ilream, and drank fufficiently. It was jufl being for a little while,...
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An Account of Corsica,: The Journal of a Tour to that Island, and Memoirs of ...

James Boswell - 1769 - 430 pages
...^heftnut trees whicK.overfhadowed us, and in that manner we brought down a fhower of cheftnuts ^jth .which we filled our pockets, and went on ; eating, them with great relim ; and when this made us thirfty, we lay down by the fide of the firft brook, put our mouths to...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of his tour to ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 402 pages
...of the chestnut trees which overshaded us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts, with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish ; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Including a Journal of His ..., Volume 10

James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pages
...of the chestnut trees which overshaded us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts, with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish ; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths...
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Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell [ed. by J.W. Croker].

John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pages
...of the chestnut trees which overshaded us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts, with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish ; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths...
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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ...

John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pages
...of the chestnut trees which overshaded us, and in that manner we brought down a shower ot chestnuts, with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths to...
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Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr ...

John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pages
...of the chestnut trees which overshaded us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts, with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths to...
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Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics

George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1878 - 386 pages
...the chestnut trees which overshadowed us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish ; and when this made us thirsty we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths to...
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Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine: And His Journal ...

James Boswell, Andrew Erskine - 1879 - 284 pages
...the chestnut trees which overshadowed us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths to...
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Boswell's correspondence with ... Andrew Erskine, and his Journal of a tour ...

James Boswell - 1879 - 302 pages
...the chestnut trees which overshadowed us, and in that manner we brought down a shower of chestnuts with which we filled our pockets, and went on eating them with great relish ; and when this made us thirsty, we lay down by the side of the first brook, put our mouths...
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