The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; ...W. Taylor, 1719 - 364 pages |
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... fhot , Half- Pikes , Powder Chefts , and fuch like , and clear'd our Deck of them twice . However , to cut fhort this melancholy Part of our Story , our Ship being difabled , and three of our Men kill'd , and eight wounded , we were ...
... fhot , Half- Pikes , Powder Chefts , and fuch like , and clear'd our Deck of them twice . However , to cut fhort this melancholy Part of our Story , our Ship being difabled , and three of our Men kill'd , and eight wounded , we were ...
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... fhot , like a Hare but different in Colour , and longer Legs , however we were very glad of it , and it was very good Meat ; but the great Joy that poor Xury came with , was to tell me he had found good Wa- ter and feen no wild Mans ...
... fhot , like a Hare but different in Colour , and longer Legs , however we were very glad of it , and it was very good Meat ; but the great Joy that poor Xury came with , was to tell me he had found good Wa- ter and feen no wild Mans ...
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... fhot him into the Head , but he lay fo with his Leg rais'd a little above his Nose , that the Slugs hit his Leg about the Knee , and broke the Bone . He ftarted up growling at first , but finding his Leg broke fell down again , and then ...
... fhot him into the Head , but he lay fo with his Leg rais'd a little above his Nose , that the Slugs hit his Leg about the Knee , and broke the Bone . He ftarted up growling at first , but finding his Leg broke fell down again , and then ...
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... fhot him into the Head , but he lay fo with his Leg rais'd a little above his Nofe , that the Slugs hit his Leg about the Knee , and broke the Bone . He ftarted up growling at first , but finding his Leg broke fell down again , and then ...
... fhot him into the Head , but he lay fo with his Leg rais'd a little above his Nofe , that the Slugs hit his Leg about the Knee , and broke the Bone . He ftarted up growling at first , but finding his Leg broke fell down again , and then ...
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... fhot him directly into the Head ; immediately he funk down into the Water , but rofe instantly and plung'd up and down as if he was ftruggling for Life ; and fo indeed he was , he immediately made to the Shore , but between the Wound ...
... fhot him directly into the Head ; immediately he funk down into the Water , but rofe instantly and plung'd up and down as if he was ftruggling for Life ; and fo indeed he was , he immediately made to the Shore , but between the Wound ...
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Page 175 - I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for my saving his life. I smiled at him, and looked pleasantly, and beckoned to him to come still nearer. At length he came close to me, and then he kneeled down again, kissed the ground, and laid his head upon the ground, and taking me by the foot, set my foot upon his head. This, it seems, was in token of swearing to be my slave for ever.
Page 130 - 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 175 - I beckoned him again to come to me, and gave him all the signs of encouragement that I could think of; and he came nearer and nearer, kneeling down every ten or twelve steps, in token of acknowledgment for my saving his life.
Page 35 - My raft was now strong enough to bear any reasonable weight; my next care was what to load it with and how to preserve what I laid upon it from the surf of the sea...
Page 178 - ... gestures to show it. At last he lays his head flat upon the ground, close to my foot, and sets my other foot upon his head, as he had done before ; and after this made all the signs to me of subjection, servitude, and submission imaginable, to let me know how he would serve me as long as he lived.