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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... immediately con- clude that there were people in the place , and would then never give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my castle , pulled up the ladder after me , having made all things without ...
... immediately con- clude that there were people in the place , and would then never give over till they found me out . In this extremity I went back directly to my castle , pulled up the ladder after me , having made all things without ...
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... immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress , and that they had some comrade , or some other ship in company , and fired these guns for signals of distress , and to obtain help . I had this presence of mind at that ...
... immediately considered that this must be some ship in distress , and that they had some comrade , or some other ship in company , and fired these guns for signals of distress , and to obtain help . I had this presence of mind at that ...
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... immediately fall , being knocked down , I suppose , with a club or wooden sword , for that was their way ; and two or three others were at work immediately , cutting him open for their cookery , while the other victim was left standing ...
... immediately fall , being knocked down , I suppose , with a club or wooden sword , for that was their way ; and two or three others were at work immediately , cutting him open for their cookery , while the other victim was left standing ...
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... immediately got down the ladders with all possible expedition , fetched my two guns , for they were both at the foot of the ladder , as I observed above ; and getting up again with the same haste to the top of the hill , I crossed ...
... immediately got down the ladders with all possible expedition , fetched my two guns , for they were both at the foot of the ladder , as I observed above ; and getting up again with the same haste to the top of the hill , I crossed ...
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... immediately , with gre t submission . I then led him up to the top of the hill , to see if his enemies were gone , and pulling out my glass , I looked , and saw plainly the place where they had been , but no appearance of them , or of ...
... immediately , with gre t submission . I then led him up to the top of the hill , to see if his enemies were gone , and pulling out my glass , I looked , and saw plainly the place where they had been , but no appearance of them , or of ...
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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.