 This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money to procure my passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the first ship that was to...  The prose works of Robert Burns - Page 100by Robert Burns - 1816 - 705 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself for want of money to procure my passage. As...steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail for the Clyde, ' For hungry ruin had me in the wind.'" The ship sailed ; but Burns was still at Mossgiel,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1854 - 252 pages
...seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself for want of money to procure my passage. As 4* soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of...steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail for the Clyde, ' For hungry ruin had me in the wind.'" The ship sailed ; but Burns was still at Mossgiel,... | |
 | Robert Burns, Allan Cunningham - 1855 - 616 pages
...besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money...the price of wafting me to the torrid zone, I took a steerage-passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde ; for 'Hungry ruin had me in the... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 728 pages
...besides, I pocketed, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money...of nine guineas — the price of wafting me to the ton-id zone — I took a steerage-passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clyde ; for "... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1856 - 538 pages
...seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting nu - 1 • 1 1', for want of money, to procure my passage. Aa soon as I was master of nine guineas, the price of...the torrid zone, I took a steerage passage in the firet ship that was to sail from the Clyde, for 'Hungry ruin had me in the wind.' " I had been for... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 466 pages
...expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself for want of money to procure my passage. As...steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail for the Clyde, ' For hungry ruin had me in the wind.'" The ship sailed; but Burns was still at Mossgiel,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 454 pages
...expenses deducted, near twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself for want of money to procure my passage. As...steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail for the Clyde, ' For hungry ruin had me in the wind.' " The ship sailed ; but Burns was still at Mossgiel,... | |
 | John Wilson - 1857 - 448 pages
...sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenturing myself for want of money to procure iny passage. As soon as I was master of nine guineas,...steerage passage in the first ship that was to sail for the Clyde, ' For hungry ruin had me in the wind.'" The ship sailed; but Burns was still at Mossgiel,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 530 pages
...besides, I pockBted, all expenses deducted, nearly twenty pounds. Thii sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money,...sail from the Clyde, for * Hungry ruin had me in the wind.5 " I had been for some days skulking from covert to covert, under all the terrors of a jail ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1859 - 736 pages
...besides, I pocketed, all expenses dedueted, nearly twenty pounds. This sum came very seasonably, as I was thinking of indenting myself, for want of money,...passage in the first ship that was to sail from the Clv-do; for " Hungry ruin had me in the wind." I had been for some daya skulking from covert to covert,... | |
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