 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...strike against the ice; and these men go on with speed, as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine. Sometimes two men set themselves...distance, and run one against another) as it were at a tilt, with these two stakes, wherewith one or both parties are thrown down, not without some hurt... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...strike against the ice ; and these men go on with speed as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine : sometimes two men set themselves...are carried a good distance from one another, and wheresoever the ice doth touch their head, it rubs oft' all the skin and lays it bare ; and if one... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...strike against the ice ; and these men g» on with speed as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine : sometimes two men set themselves...with these stakes, wherewith one or both parties are throwp down, not without some hurt to {heir bodies ; and after their fall, by reason of the violent... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...strike against the ice ; and these men go on with speed as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine : sometimes two men set themselves at a distance, and run one against ano» ther as it were at tilt, with these stakes, wherewith one or both parties are thrown down, not... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...strike against the ice ; and these men go on wffh speed as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine : sometimes two men set themselves...fall, by reason of the violent motion, are carried a^good distance from one another, and wheresoever the ice doth touch their head, it nJbs off all the... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...strike against the ice, and these men go on with speed, as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine; sometimes two men set themselves...their bodies ; and after their fall, by reason of their violent motion, are carried a good distance from one another ; and wheresoe ver the ice doth... | |
 | J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 834 pages
...go on with speed, as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine; sometimes t\vo men set themselves at a distance, and run one against...their bodies ; and after their fall, by reason of their violent motion, are carried a good distance from one another ; and wheresoe ver the ice doth... | |
 | J S. F - 1827 - 434 pages
...strike against the ice, and these men go on with speed, as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine ; sometimes two men set themselves...their bodies ; and after their fall, by reason of their violent motion, are carried a good distance from one another ; and wheresoever the ice doth touch... | |
 | 1828 - 424 pages
...strike against the ice, and these men go on with speed, as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some warlike engine ; sometimes two men set themselves...their bodies ; and after their fall, by reason of their violent motion, are carried a good distance from one another ; and wheresoever the ice doth touch... | |
 | William Pulleyn - London (England) - 1830 - 402 pages
...and then men go with speed, as doth a hird in the air, -or darts shot from some warlike engine. M " Sometimes, two men set themselves at a distance, and...to their bodies, and after their fall, by reason of their violent motion, are carried a good distance one from another. Thus do the yonng men exercise... | |
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... the ice, and bind to their shoes bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold stakes in their hands headed with sharp iron, which sometimes they strike against the ice; and these men go on with speed as doth a bird in the air, or darts shot from some... 
