 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1799 - 524 pages
...some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality beingthus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the...continued to employ themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was myself the subject... | |
 | Great Britain - 1800 - 490 pages
...towards a liranger in dilireis, my worthy bencfaclrefs (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might lleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had Hood gazing on me all the while in fixed afioniihment, to refume their talk of. fpinning cotton ; in... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Slave trade - 1807 - 412 pages
...some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the...continued to employ themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I was myself the subject... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the...might sleep there without apprehension) called to tiie female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...some etnhers, she gave me for supper. The riles of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me T might sleep there without apprehension), called to the female part of the family, who had stood gazing... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality " being thus performed,' towards a stranger in distress; my worthy " benefactress (pointing to...continued to '* employ themselves great part of the night. They lightened their " labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was " myself the... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress, pointing to the...me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume theirtask of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the mght.... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...apprehension. Her female domestics, who had stood gazing on him, in fixed astonishment, she then ordered to resume their task of spinning cotton, in. which they continued to employ themselves through the night. They lightened their labor by songs, one at least of which was evidently composed... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pages
...some embers, she gave me for supper. The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might steep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who stood gazing on me all... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...and telling me I might slcep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, wko had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment,...continued to employ themselves great part of the night. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of which iras composed extempore ; for I was myself the... | |
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The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress, my worthy benefactress — pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension — called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on... 
