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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... took two guns upon my shoulders , and two pistols at my girdle , and my great sword by my side , with- out a scabbard ; and with all the speed I was able to make , I went away to the hill , where I had dis- covered the first appearance ...
... took two guns upon my shoulders , and two pistols at my girdle , and my great sword by my side , with- out a scabbard ; and with all the speed I was able to make , I went away to the hill , where I had dis- covered the first appearance ...
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... took up most of my hours , which should have been better employed , in contriving how to circumvent and fall upon them the very next time I should see them ; especially if they should be divided , as they were the last time , into two ...
... took up most of my hours , which should have been better employed , in contriving how to circumvent and fall upon them the very next time I should see them ; especially if they should be divided , as they were the last time , into two ...
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... took my gun in my hand , and ran towards the south - east side of the island , to the rocks , where I had been formerly carried away with the current ; and get- ting up there , the weather by this time being per- fectly clear , I could ...
... took my gun in my hand , and ran towards the south - east side of the island , to the rocks , where I had been formerly carried away with the current ; and get- ting up there , the weather by this time being per- fectly clear , I could ...
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... took a quantity of bread , a great pot for fresh water , a compass to steer by , a bottle of rum , ( for I had still a great deal of that left , ) a basket . full of raisins ; and thus loading myself with every thing necessary , I went ...
... took a quantity of bread , a great pot for fresh water , a compass to steer by , a bottle of rum , ( for I had still a great deal of that left , ) a basket . full of raisins ; and thus loading myself with every thing necessary , I went ...
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... took him into the boat , but found him almost dead for hunger and thirst : I gave him a cake of my bread , and he ate like a ravenous wolf that had been starving a fortnight in the snow : I then gave the poor creature some fresh water ...
... took him into the boat , but found him almost dead for hunger and thirst : I gave him a cake of my bread , and he ate like a ravenous wolf that had been starving a fortnight in the snow : I then gave the poor creature some fresh water ...
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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.