 | Lesley Byrd Simpson - 1966 - 420 sidor
...merely as a measure of precaution, with [out] much expectation of being obliged to use it; but at a very steep pitch, which made my head almost burst to think...seven, very thin, but symmetrically formed. A bark strip was tied to the arms of the chair, and, sitting down, he placed his back against the back of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1842 - 578 sidor
...submit to the degradation of beMg carried on a man's shoulders : — ' The Indian who was to carry me was small, not more than five feet seven, very thin, but symmetrically formed. A bark strap was*tied to the arms of the chair, and, sitting down, he placed his back against the back of the chair,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1841 - 564 sidor
...CARRIAGE OF THE COUNTRV. We had brought the silla with us merely as a measure of precaution, without ROJO P N NmE M MVP9P N K N N @ E~N 0 O % L @ @ @ K L_P`PaPlO : PbOvPwPxP birk strings. The Indian who was to carry me, like all the others, was small, not more than five feet... | |
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We had brought the silla with us merely as a measure of precaution, with much expectation of being obliged to use it ; but at a steep pitch, which made my head almost burst to think of climbing, I resorted to it for the first time. It was a large, clumsy... 