 A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 5751862Full view - About this book
 | John Pratt - 2002 - 230 pages
...and as a fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head....briars; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. (1860: 1) This escaped convict -... | |
 | Joanne Suter - 2002 - 114 pages
...character: A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head....who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled. . . Dickens had an amazing eye for details. He also had a mind full of memories about characters he... | |
 | Alex Woloch - 2003 - 404 pages
...a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat. and with broken shoes. and with an old rag tied around his head. A man who had been soaked in water. and...who limped. and shivered. and glared. and growled: and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. . . . The man. after looking at... | |
 | Gay Hawkins, Stephen Muecke - 2003 - 172 pages
...from the graves threatening to cut his throat — a man in coarse gray with a great iron on his leg, "a man who had been soaked in water and smothered...and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars."24 This is the Bog Queen's consort: a convict, sentenced to transportation to Australia and... | |
 | Michael Taussig - 2004 - 368 pages
...the graves and threatening to cut his throat — a man in coarse gray with a great iron on his leg, "a man who had been soaked in water and smothered...flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars." This is the Bog Queen's consort: a convict, sentenced to transportation to Australia and just escaped... | |
 | Frances Orchard, Sarah Lindsay - 2005 - 72 pages
...throat!" A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron ring on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. "O! Don't cut my throat, sir," I pleaded... | |
 | George Sampson (Editor of Berkeley's Works.) - 1919 - 244 pages
...throat!" A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head....; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled ; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. " O ! Don't cut my throat, sir,"... | |
 | 602 pages
...throat ! " A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head....; who limped and shivered, and glared and growled ; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. " O ! Don't cut my throat, sir,''... | |
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