 | 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
...hurried with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. ' When I leisurely contemplated the massive...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet; the whole being equally... | |
 | Asia - 1839 - 702 pages
...bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When leisurely contemplated, the massive frame before me...strength. The extreme height, from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof, of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
 | 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
...beside the noble prize I had won. 1 When I leisurely contemplated the massive frame before me, seemin; as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet; the "hole being equally... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Africa, Southern - 1839 - 440 pages
...hurraed with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When I leisurely contemplated the massive...matter of astonishment that a bullet discharged from adistance of eighty or ninety yards should have been attended with little effect upon such amazing... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1839 - 614 pages
...I had won. *When I had leisurely contemplated the massive frame before me, seeming as though it haj been cast in a mould of brass, and protected by a...thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a ballet, discharged from a distance of eighty or ninety yarda, should have been attended with little... | |
 | Sir William Cornwallis Harris - Afrikaners - 1844 - 442 pages
...hurraed with bursting exultation, and unsaddling my steed, sank exhausted beside the noble prize I had won. When I leisurely contemplated the massive...strength. The extreme height from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
 | Wonders - Animals - 1847 - 444 pages
...seventeen discharges of the deadly rifle. " This was not," he says, " a matter of astonishment when I contemplated the massive frame before me, seeming...of brass ; and protected by a hide of an inch and half in thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a bullet discharged from a distance... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1849 - 544 pages
...in a mould of brass, and protected by a hide of an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer a matter of astonishment that a bullet, discharged from...strength. The extreme height, from the crown of the elegantly-moulded head to the hoof of this magnificent animal, was eighteen feet ; the whole being... | |
 | 1851 - 706 pages
...massive form before me, seeming as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and wrapt in a hide an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer...attended with little effect upon such amazing strength. " Two hours were passed in completing a drawing, and Piet still not making his appearance, I cut off... | |
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I leisurely contemplated the massive frame before me, seeming as though it had been cast in a mould of brass, and protected by a hide of an inch and a half in thickness, it was no longer matter of astonishment that a bullet, discharged from a distance... 
