 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful...chief informed me that he had been struck down by a durion falling on his head, which he thought would certainly have caused his death, yet he recovered... | |
 | Mayne Reid - 1920 - 254 pages
...and accidents not un frequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When the durion strikes a man in its fall it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, whilst the blow itself is very heavy; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | Alfred R. Wallace - 2007 - 553 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not uni reqoently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely_ ensues, the copious effasion of blood preventing the inflammation -which might otherwise take... | |
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When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the... 
