 | Children - 530 pages
...disturbed, shrunk aside, and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...him by surprise, till at last it fairly yielded the contest, and left the gentleman to pursue \ni pleasure walks. The direction he now took, as may be... | |
 | 1825 - 458 pages
...disturbed — slunk aside— and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...forth at a different quarter, it persevered for above half an hour in this attempt to eaten him by surprize; till at last it fairly yielded the contest,... | |
 | 1827 - 616 pages
...disturbed, shrunk aside, and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...him by surprise ; till at last it fairly yielded the contest, and left the gentleman to pursue his pleasure walks. The direction he now took, as maybe easily... | |
 | George Thompson - Africa, Southern - 1827 - 552 pages
...disturbed — slunk aside — and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, — which still continued to shrink...him by surprise ; till at last it fairly yielded the contest, and left the gentleman to pursue his pleasure wa!/c. The direction he now took, as may be... | |
 | 1827 - 624 pages
...disturbed — shrunk aside — and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...persevered for above an hour in this attempt to catch lu'm by surprise ; till at last it fairly yielded the contest, and left the gentleman to pursue his... | |
 | 1828 - 612 pages
...disturbed—slunk aside—and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...for above an hour in this attempt to catch him by surprize; till, at last, it fairly yielded the contest, and left the gentleman to pursue his pleasure... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 1178 pages
...disturbed—slunk aside—and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...forth at a different quarter, it persevered for above half an hour in this attempt to catch him by surprise; till at last it fairly yielded the contest,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1825 - 498 pages
...aside — and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The Officer turned constantly upon the tyger, which still continued to shrink from his glance ;...forth at a different quarter, it persevered for above half an hour in this attempt to catch him by surprize ; till at last it fairly yielded the contest,... | |
 | 1834 - 438 pages
...disturbed — slunk aside — and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from...forth at a different quarter, it persevered for above half an hour in this attempt to catch him by surprise: till at last it fairly yielded the contest,... | |
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... aside — and attempted to creep round upon him behind. The officer turned constantly upon the tiger, which still continued to shrink from his glance ; but darting into the thicket, and again issuing forth at a different quarter, it persevered for... 
