Life of Frank Buckland ...Smith Elder, 1885 - 433 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 171 - ... 80 Haec ubi dicta, cavum conversa cuspide montem impulit in latus ; ac venti, velut agmine facto, qua data porta, ruunt et terras turbine perflant.
الصفحة 78 - Finding nothing but the punctures, I threw the rat away and put the knife and skin in my pocket, and started to go away. I had not walked a hundred yards before all of a sudden I felt just as if somebody had come behind me and struck me a severe blow on the head and neck, and at the same time I experienced a most acute pain and sense of oppression at the chest, as though a hot iron had been run in and a hundredweight put on the top of it. I knew instantly, from what I had read, that I was poisoned...
الصفحة 79 - After walking or rather staggering along for some minutes, I gradually recovered my senses, and steered for the nearest chemist's shop. Rushing in, I asked for eau de luce. Of course he had none, but my eye caught the words
الصفحة 57 - After much ambush-work, at length I collected a dozen frogs and put them in a bottle. I started at night on my homeward journey by the diligence, and I put the bottle containing the frogs into the pocket inside the diligence. My fellow-passengers were sleepy old smoke-dried Germans: very little conversation took place, and after the first mile every one settled himself to sleep, and soon all were snoring. I suddenly awoke with a start, and found all the sleepers had been roused at the same moment....
الصفحة 367 - Chollerford dam in the distance, and at once concluded it would not be of the least use to try, certainly not to-day — maybe many days — as all that snow had to melt and come down off the hills into the river in the form of water. - ' Besides, Buckland, you're a fortnight or three weeks too late to get the run of spawning salmon off the redds.' ' Yes,' I said, ' I know that ; but when Sir Julius and the New Zealanders say, " Go and try,
الصفحة 78 - ... on to the body of the rat. This poor beast now seemed to know that the fight was over and that he was conquered. He retired to a corner of the cage and began panting violently, endeavoring at the same time to steady his failing strength with his feet. His eyes were widely dilated, and his mouth open as if gasping for breath. The cobra stood erect over him, hissing and putting out his tongue as if conscious of victory. In about three minutes the rat fell quietly on his side and expired; the cobra...
الصفحة 62 - London, and soon afterwards became house-surgeon at St. George's. He used to say that the cases which were brought into the accident ward grouped themselves into classes according to the hours of the day. The suicides came at an early hour of the morning; the scaffold accidents next, since a scaffold, if it gave way at all, gave way early in the day; the street accidents afterwards, and so on. At St. George's he collected a fund of good stories, with which he used to amuse his friends to the last...
الصفحة 307 - Scotch fishery; and the English, the Irish, the French and the Dutch fisheries, are also very productive. Estimating the gross produce of these four fisheries at only the same amount as the Scotch fishery, 2,400,000,000 herrings must be annually taken by four nations, the British, the French, the Dutch and the Norwegian, or in other words, two herrings for ever}' man, woman and child in the world.
الصفحة 78 - ... to the blow, right on to the body of the rat. This poor beast now seemed to know that the fight was over and that he was conquered. He retired to a corner of the cage and began panting violently, endeavoring at the same time to steady his failing strength with his feet. His eyes were widely dilated, and his mouth open as if gasping for breath. The cobra stood erect over him, hissing and putting out his tongue as if conscious of victory. In about three minutes the rat fell quietly on his side...
الصفحة 417 - so very good to the little fishes, I do not believe He would let their inspector suffer shipwreck at last.' ' I am going a long journey where I think I shall see a great many curious animals. This journey I must go alone.