Rough recollections of rambles abroad and at home, Volym 1Thomas Cautley Newby, publisher, 72, Mortimer St., Cavendish Sq., 1847 |
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Sida 288 - could hear the beating of my heart—and I felt, to my increased dismay, that the palsy of terror had began to agitate my limbs ! ' It will wake,' thought I, ' and then all is over!' " At that juncture, something—it might have been a wall-lizard, or a large
Sida 280 - and each particular hair to stand on end, like quills upon the fretful porcupine.
Sida 290 - ' Sahib!' was the instantaneous response, and my heart beat quicker at the success of my attempt. I lay still again, for the reptile, evidently roused, made a movement, and its head—as I suppose—fell on my naked arm. Oh, God ! the agony of that moment, when suppressed tremor almost gave way to madness ! " I debated with myself whether I should again
Sida 290 - whether it would not be better than either to start up at once and shake the disgustful burthen from me. But the latter suggestion was at once abandoned because of the assurance I felt that it would prove fatal: impeded by the heavy coils of the creature, weak and nerveless from excitement, I could not escape its fangs. Again, therefore, I spoke with
Sida 231 - O'er whose roof Fair clinging weeds with ivy pale did grow, Clasping its grey rents with a verdurous
Sida 291 - one after one its terrible coils unwinding, the grisly monster glided away from my body ; and the last sounds that struck my sense of hearing were the—
Sida 291 - chiragh!'— Lascar, a lanthorn! " ' Latah own, sahib.' I am bringing it, sir. " There was then a sound of clanking metal—light, advancing, flashed across the roof of the veranda—and at the noise of coming steps,
Sida 287 - enormous serpent was on my breast. When I tell you that the whole of my chest, and even the pit of my stomach, were covered with the cold scaly proportions of the reptile, you will own that it must have been one of considerable size! "What my thoughts were...so made up of abhorrence, dread, and the expectation... nay, assurance of speedy death that must follow any movement on my part...I
Sida 288 - might have been a wall-lizard, or a large beetle— fell from the ceiling upon my left arm which lay stretched at my side. The snake —uncoiling its
Sida 287 - and paralyse the faculties, but they more frequently sharpen both, and ere I could twice wink my eyes, I was broad awake and aware