The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight & Twenty Years All Alone in an Uninhabited Island on the Coast of America Near the Mouth of the Great River Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck Wherin All the Men Perished But Himself. With an Account how He was at Last as Strangely Delivered by Pyrates. Written by Himself...John Stockdale, 1790 |
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... frighted , wa'n't you , last night , when it blew but a cap full of wind ? A cap full do you call it ? faid I , it was a terrible ftorm : Aftorm , you fool you , replies he , do you call that a form ? why it was nothing at all ; give us ...
... frighted , wa'n't you , last night , when it blew but a cap full of wind ? A cap full do you call it ? faid I , it was a terrible ftorm : Aftorm , you fool you , replies he , do you call that a form ? why it was nothing at all ; give us ...
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... frighted : I got up out of my cabbin , and looked out ; but fuch a difmal fight I never faw : the fea went mountains high , and broke upon us every three or four minutes : when I could look about , I could fee nothing but diftrefs round ...
... frighted : I got up out of my cabbin , and looked out ; but fuch a difmal fight I never faw : the fea went mountains high , and broke upon us every three or four minutes : when I could look about , I could fee nothing but diftrefs round ...
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... frighted , and indeed fo was I too ; but we were both more frighted when we heard one of thefe mighty creatures come fwimming towards our boat ; we could not fee him , but we might hear him by his blowing to be a monstrous huge and ...
... frighted , and indeed fo was I too ; but we were both more frighted when we heard one of thefe mighty creatures come fwimming towards our boat ; we could not fee him , but we might hear him by his blowing to be a monstrous huge and ...
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... frighted with fome wild beaft , and I run forward towards him to help him , but when I came nearer to him , I faw fomething hanging over his shoulders , which was a creature that he had fhot , like a hare , but different in colour , and ...
... frighted with fome wild beaft , and I run forward towards him to help him , but when I came nearer to him , I faw fomething hanging over his shoulders , which was a creature that he had fhot , like a hare , but different in colour , and ...
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... frighted , and faid , Me kill ! he eat me at one mouth ; one mouthful he meant ; however , I faid no more to the boy , but bad him lie ftill , and I took our biggeft gun , which was almoft mufket - bore , and loaded it with a good ...
... frighted , and faid , Me kill ! he eat me at one mouth ; one mouthful he meant ; however , I faid no more to the boy , but bad him lie ftill , and I took our biggeft gun , which was almoft mufket - bore , and loaded it with a good ...
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Page 190 - I went up to a rising ground to look farther; I went up the shore, and down the shore, but it was all one; I could see no other impression but that one. I went to it again to see if there were any more, and to observe if it might not be my fancy; but there was no room for that, for there was exactly the very print of a foot, toes, heel, and every part of a foot; how it came thither I knew not, nor could in the least imagine.
Page 193 - ... (for so I think I called it ever after this), I fled into it like one pursued ; whether I went over by the ladder, as first...
Page 293 - It was remarkable, too, we had but three subjects, and they were of three different religions. My man Friday was a Protestant, his father was a Pagan and a cannibal, and the Spaniard was a Papist. However, I allowed liberty of conscience throughout my dominions.
Page 84 - I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools...
Page 250 - I likewise taught him to say Master, and then let him know that was to be my name ; I likewise taught him to say Yes and No, and to know the meaning of them.
Page 194 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.
Page 250 - ... not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the Negroes', a very good mouth, thin lips, and his fine teeth well set, and white as ivory.
Page 293 - Secondly, my people were perfectly subjected. I was absolute lord and lawgiver; they all owed their lives to me, and were ready to lay down their lives, if there had been occasion of it, for me.
Page 70 - E'en remain where thou art and go to the bottom as a creature whose life is not worth saving.