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 89
... two of them , and wounded the third , so that he lay down in the bottom of the boat , as if he had been dead . While my man Friday fired at them , I pulled out up , my knife , and cut the flags that OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 89.
... two of them , and wounded the third , so that he lay down in the bottom of the boat , as if he had been dead . While my man Friday fired at them , I pulled out up , my knife , and cut the flags that OF ROBINSON CRUSOE . 89.
Page 91
... wounds on his head ; but the savage , being a stout lusty fellow , closing in with him , had thrown him down ( being faint ) , and was wringing my sword out of his hand , when the Spaniard , though undermost , wisely quit- ting his ...
... wounds on his head ; but the savage , being a stout lusty fellow , closing in with him , had thrown him down ( being faint ) , and was wringing my sword out of his hand , when the Spaniard , though undermost , wisely quit- ting his ...
Page 92
... wounded at first , and fallen , and all the rest he could come up with ; and the Spaniard coming to me for a gun , I gave him one of the fowling - pieces , with which he pursued two of the savages , and wounded them both ; but as he was ...
... wounded at first , and fallen , and all the rest he could come up with ; and the Spaniard coming to me for a gun , I gave him one of the fowling - pieces , with which he pursued two of the savages , and wounded them both ; but as he was ...
Page 124
... wounded ; but not being dead , he started up on his feet , and called eagerly for help to the other ; but the cap- tain stepping to him , told him it was too late to cry for help ; he should call upon God to forgive his villany ; and ...
... wounded ; but not being dead , he started up on his feet , and called eagerly for help to the other ; but the cap- tain stepping to him , told him it was too late to cry for help ; he should call upon God to forgive his villany ; and ...
Page 125
... wounded . By this time I was come ; and when they saw their danger , and that it was in vain to resist , they begged for mercy . The captain told them he would spare their lives , if they would give him any assurance of their abhorrence ...
... wounded . By this time I was come ; and when they saw their danger , and that it was in vain to resist , they begged for mercy . The captain told them he would spare their lives , if they would give him any assurance of their abhorrence ...
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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.