The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; Or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many LandsNelson, 1873 - 506 sider |
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adventure African alarm Androclus animal attack bear beast Beauchamp Black Monday blood body branch brown bear bush Captain Carnivora Ceylon chase companions continued Fisher courage cried cubs danger dead death distance dogs Douglas elephant elephant's enemy escape exclaimed eyes Fat Boy feet fell ferocious fierce Firbank fire followed forest forward gallop grisly ground growl hand head heard herd horse huge hundred hunter hunting Indian jaguar jaws jungle killed KINKAJOU Kublai Khan length lion look mahout man-eater Mansfield matchlocks Mons Meg Mountjoy native never night paces panther peril Polar bear Post 8vo prairie prey quadrupeds remarked replied Fisher rifle roar Rosko rushed says scene seemed seized Seymour shikaree shot shoulder shouted side sight soon spot spring story suddenly tail terrible Ticuna tiger tigress traveller tree trunk turned tusks Vernon victim watch wild wolf wolves wounded yards young Zambos
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Side 155 - More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Side 121 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Side 92 - Afar in the desert I love to ride, With the silent Bushboy alone by my side...
Side 284 - One fatal remembrance — one sorrow that throws Its bleak shade alike o'er our joys and our woes To which Life nothing darker nor brighter can bring, For which joy hath no balm — and affliction no sting.
Side 204 - It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts ; to see the bear with his pink eyes leering after his enemies approach, the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid...
Side 403 - I first fired six shots with the two-grooved rifle, which must have eventually proved mortal. After which I fired six shots at the same part with the Dutch sixpounder. Large tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side, he expired.
Side 54 - In the centre of the edifice, the arena, or stage, was strewed with the finest sand, and successively assumed the most different forms. At one moment...
Side 164 - Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed of her whelps in the field: and thy father is a man of war, and will not lodge with the people.
Side 90 - Suddenly the appalling and murderous voice of an angry, blood-thirsty lion burst upon my ear within a few yards of us, followed by the shrieking of the Hottentots. Again and again the murderous roar of attack was repeated. We heard John and Ruyter shriek
Side 163 - The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.