 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Africa, Southern - 1838 - 454 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...clattering of hoofs, away bounded the Giraffes in grostesque confusions-clearing the ground by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far... | |
 | Asia - 1839 - 702 pages
...accompanied by u restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the s.ame moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 606 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Africa, Southern - 1839 - 440 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
 | 1839 - 648 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...clattering of hoofs, away bounded the giraffes in grotesque confusion—clearing the ground by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1839 - 602 pages
...accompanied by ' restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...At the report of the gun and the sudden clattering if hoofs, away bounded the giraffes in grotesque confusion, clearing be ground by a succession of frog-like... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Stephen T. Allen - Children's literature - 1842 - 418 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - Hunting - 1852 - 620 pages
...accompanied by a restless rolling of the body, giving earnest of her intention to charge, I directed Piet to salute her with a broadside, at the same moment...by a succession of frog-like hops, and soon leaving me far in the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we... | |
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... the rear. Twice were their towering forms concealed from view by a park of trees, which we entered almost at the same instant; and twice, on emerging from the labyrinth, did I perceive them tilting over an eminence immeasurably in advance. 
