Famous boys; and how they became great menDarton, 1879 - 301 pages |
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Page 233 - Seeing we could not get them to kill one of the lions, we bent our footsteps toward the village ; in going round the end of the hill, however, I saw one of the beasts sitting on a piece of rock as before, but this time he had a little bush in front. Being about thirty yards off', I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it. The men then called out, ' He is shot, he is shot 1 ' Others cried, ' He has been shot by another man too; let us go to him!
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Page 234 - Turning round to relieve myself of the weight, as he had one paw on the back of my head, I saw his eyes directed to Mebalwe, who was trying to shoot him at a distance of ten or fifteen yards.
Page 119 - Wyvis rose to the west, white with the yet unwasted snows of winter, 'and as sharply defined in the clear atmosphere as if all its sunny slopes and blue retiring hollows had been chiselled in marble. A line of snow ran along the opposite hills : all above was white, and all below was purple.
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Page 233 - When in the act of ramming down the bullets I heard a shout. Starting, and looking half round, I saw the lion just in the act of springmg upon me. I was upon a little height ; he caught my shoulder as he sprang, and we both came to the ground below together. Growling horribly close to my ear, he shook me as a terrier dog does a rat.
Page 140 - This book set all my soul to think, to feel, and to reason, from all without, and from all within. It gave the first metaphysical turn to my mind ; and I cultivated the little knowledge of writing which I had acquired, in order to put down my reflections. It awakened me from my stupor, and induced me to form a resolution to abandon the grovelling views which I had been accustomed to entertain.
Page 116 - Sandstone of the district, and was overtopped by a huge bank of diluvial clay, which rose over it in some places to the height of nearly thirty feet, and which at this time was rent and shivered, wherever it presented an open front to the weather, by a recent frost. A heap of loose fragments, which had fallen from above, blocked up the face of the quarry and my first employment was to clear them away. The friction of the shovel soon blistered my hands, but the pain was by no means very severe, and...