The Life and Aventures of Robinson Crusoe: To which is Prefixed a Biographical Memoir of Daniel De Foe, Volume 2James Ballantyne, 1810 |
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Page 36
... frighted ( that I must acknow- ledge ) when I perceived him to run my way : and especially when , as I thought , I saw him pursued by the whole body ; and now I expected that part of my dream was coming to pass , and that he would ...
... frighted ( that I must acknow- ledge ) when I perceived him to run my way : and especially when , as I thought , I saw him pursued by the whole body ; and now I expected that part of my dream was coming to pass , and that he would ...
Page 38
... frighted at me as at them ; but I beckoned with my hand to him to come back ; and in the mean time I slowly advanced towards the two that followed ; then rushing at once upon the foremost , I knocked him down with the stock of my piece ...
... frighted at me as at them ; but I beckoned with my hand to him to come back ; and in the mean time I slowly advanced towards the two that followed ; then rushing at once upon the foremost , I knocked him down with the stock of my piece ...
Page 52
... frighted again , notwithstanding all that I had said to him ; and I found he was the more amazed , because he did not see me put any thing into the gun ; but thought there must be some wonderful fund of death and destruction in that ...
... frighted again , notwithstanding all that I had said to him ; and I found he was the more amazed , because he did not see me put any thing into the gun ; but thought there must be some wonderful fund of death and destruction in that ...
Page 82
... frighted ; " so I heartened him up as well as I could . However , I saw the poor fellow most terribly scared ; for nothing ran in his head but that they were come to look for him , and would cut him in pieces , 11 66 our and eat him ...
... frighted ; " so I heartened him up as well as I could . However , I saw the poor fellow most terribly scared ; for nothing ran in his head but that they were come to look for him , and would cut him in pieces , 11 66 our and eat him ...
Page 90
... frighted with the noise of our pieces , that they fell down for mere amaze- ment and fear , and had no more power to attempt their own escape , than their flesh had to resist our shot ; and that was the case of those five that Friday ...
... frighted with the noise of our pieces , that they fell down for mere amaze- ment and fear , and had no more power to attempt their own escape , than their flesh had to resist our shot ; and that was the case of those five that Friday ...
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Page 42 - His hair was long and black, not curled like wool; his forehead very high and large, and a great vivacity and sparkling sharpness in his eyes. The colour of his skin was not quite black, but very tawny; and yet not of an ugly yellow nauseous tawny, as the Brazilians and Virginians, and other natives of America are; but of a bright kind of a dun olive colour, that had in it something very agreeable, though not very easy to describe. His face was round and plump; his nose small, not flat like the negroes;...
Page 211 - ... and the men of labour spent their strength in daily strugglings for bread to maintain the vital strength they laboured with ; so living in a daily circulation of sorrow, living but to work, and working but to live, as if daily bread were the only end of wearisome life, and a wearisome life the only occasion of daily bread.
Page 43 - I was very well pleased with him. In a little time I began to speak to him, and teach him to speak to me ; and first, I made him know his name should be Friday, which was the day I saved his life ; and I called him so for the memory of the time; 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.