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Abdul adventure Alfred Amyas Aouda Archie arms arrived asked Aztecs began boat brought called canoes Captain Sinclair Colin Cortés cried dark dead Dick Stone Don Quixote EDWARD SINGLETON HOLDEN enemy escape eyes face father fear feet fell fire followed Fort Kearney Fritz Guatemozin hands head heard heart Horse Shoe Indian woman John killed knew Kostuilin lady lance laughed Léontine lodge looked Lorna Doone Malachi Mary Percival mother mountain mounted Tartar musket NATHAN HASKELL DOLE never night once party passed Passepartout Paul Phileas Fogg Pierre Delaunay prisoners reached replied returned rifle river road round rushed Sancho seemed seized Señors shore shouted side Skraelings soldiers soon Spaniards stood stopped sword Tartar tell thing thou thought Tlacopan told took turned versts Vineland waiting woods young Zhilin
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 267 - Manuscript) records at great length their devices, their colors, and the embroidery of their horse trappings. It is unnecessary to be particular on these subjects. To borrow lines from a contemporary poet, who has written but too little: — The knights are dust. And their good swords are rust; Their souls are with the saints, we trust.* Their escutcheons have long moldered from the walls of their castles.
الصفحة 275 - ... had fallen, for the shock had made each horse recoil backwards upon its haunches. The address of the riders recovered their steeds by use of the bridle and spur ; and having glared on each other for an instant with eyes which seemed to flash fire through the bars of their visors, each made a demi-volte, and, retiring, to the extremity of the lists, received a fresh lance from the attendants.
الصفحة 272 - At length, as the Saracenic music of the challengers concluded one of those long and high flourishes with which they had broken the silence of the lists, it was answered by a solitary trumpet, which breathed a note of defiance from the northern extremity. All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and...
الصفحة 22 - And every moment, as the sky was clearing up for a white frost, the cold of the water got worse and worse, until I was fit to cry with it. And so, in a sorry plight, I came to an opening in the bushes, where a great black pool lay in front of me, whitened with snow (as I thought) at the sides, till I saw it was only foam froth.
الصفحة 283 - Then," said John, after he had again looked round the room, " it must be either you or me, for all but us two are bare-headed." The King laughed at John's fancy ; and that the good yeoman might have occasion for mirth also, he made him a present of the farm of Braehead, which he had wished so much to possess, on condition that John...
الصفحة 276 - Xorman on the visor, where his lance's point kept hold of the bars. Yet, even at this disadvantage, the Templar sustained his high reputation ; and had not the girths of his saddle burst, he might not have been unhorsed. As it chanced, however, saddle, horse, and man rolled on the ground under a cloud of dust.
الصفحة 274 - ... of the lists with the shock of a thunderbolt. The lances burst into shivers up to the very grasp, and it seemed at the moment that both knights had fallen, for the shock had made each horse recoil backwards upon its haunches.
الصفحة 272 - Saracenic music of the challengers concluded one of those long and high nourishes with which they had broken the silence of the lists, it was answered by a solitary trumpet, which breathed a note of defiance from the northern extremity. All eyes were turned to see the new champion which these sounds announced, and no sooner were the barriers opened than he paced into the lists. As far as could be judged of a man sheathed in...
الصفحة 131 - Ramsay," said he, walking up to the dame, who was occupied at a table, with a large trencher before her, in which she was plying that household thrift which the negro described ;
الصفحة 224 - ... endeavored to check the confusion and lead his followers by a safer path to the opposite bank. But his voice was lost in the wild uproar, and finally, hurrying on with the tide, he pressed...