 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 614
...surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied. All were smoking, all gabbling. The Protector was...rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. It was the scene of the Baxada prison all over, except that the parties were not in chains, nor exactly without coats to their... | |
 | 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 - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied. All were smoking, all gabbling. The Protector was...rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. It was the scene of the Baxada prison all over, except that the parties were not in chains, nor exactly without coats to their... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 904
...weather-beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied with their chief. All were smoking, all were gabbling. The Protector was dictating to two secretaries,...two dilapidated rush-bottom chairs in the hovel." This is ludicrous enough ; but mark with what attention and rapidity public business was transacted.... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...kindled on the mud floor of his hut, eating beef off a spit, and drinking gin out of a cow's horn. He was surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten...dictating to two secretaries, who occupied at one deal 708 table the only two dilapidated rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. . . . To complete the singular... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...kindled on the mnd floor of his hut, eating beef off a spit, and drinking gin out of a cow's horn. He was surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten...dictating to two secretaries, who occupied at one deal 708 table the only two dilapidated rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. ... To complete the singular incongruity... | |
 | William Henry Koebel - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...a spit, and drinking gin out of a cow horn! He was surrounded by a dozen officers in weather beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied...occupied, at one deal table, the only two dilapidated rush bottom chairs in the hovel. To complete the singular incongruity of the scene, the floor of the... | |
 | William Spence Robertson - 1918 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...to the headquarters of the "protector" thus described him: And there (I pray you do not turn skeptic on my hands), what do you think I saw? Why, the most...only two dilapidated rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. . . . To complete the singular incongruity of the scene, the floor of the one apartment of the mud... | |
 | John Hugh Street - عدد الصفحات: 448
...Memorias of Colonel Ramon Cdceres. 1 JP and WP Robertson, Letters on Paraguay, vol. m, pp. 101-10. New World, seated on a bullock's skull, at a fire...two dilapidated rush-bottom chairs in the hovel.' As Robertson wrote, it was just like his prison at Parana, except that here there were no chains. The... | |
 | Lester D. Langley - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten attire, in similar positions and similarly occupied. ... All were smoking, all gabbling. The Protector was dictating to two secretaries, who occupied . . . the only two dilapidated chairs in his hovel." Quoted in Desmond Gregory, Brave New World: The... | |
 | 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 - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied. All were smoking, all gabbling. The Protector was...rush-bottom chairs in the hovel. It •was the scene of the Baxada prison all over, except that the parties were not in chains, nor exactly without coats to their... | |
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He was surrounded by a dozen officers in weather-beaten attire, in similar positions, and similarly occupied with their chief. All were smoking, all gabbling. The Protector was dictating to two secretaries, who occupied, at one deal table, the only two... 