| William Youatt - 1831 - Počet stránok 512
...Arab of the desert con sisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...had scarcely a rag to cover him — and his wife and his children were starving. The sum offered was great, — it would provide him and his family with... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1831 - Počet stránok 484
...Arab of the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...with indignation and scorn ; but he was miserably |iocir. He had no means of supplying his most urgent wants, or procuring the barest necessaries of... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - Počet stránok 426
...Arab of the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her, in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...children were starving. The sum offered was great, — it would provide him and his family with food for life. At length, and reluctantly, he consented.... | |
| Pierce Egan - 1832 - Počet stránok 432
...Arab of the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her, in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV-. The Arab would have...children were starving. The sum offered was great, — it would provide him and his family with food for life. At length, and reluctantly, he consented.... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - Počet stránok 478
...Arab of the desert consist, ed of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her in order to •end her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...had no means of supplying his most urgent wants, or pro. curing the barest necessaries of life. Still he hesitated ; he had scarcely a rag to cover him... | |
| Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1835 - Počet stránok 474
...consul offered to purchase her in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would hare rejected the proposal at once with indignation and...had scarcely a rag to cover him — and his wife and his children were starving. The sum offered was great, — it would provide him and his family with... | |
| 1842 - Počet stránok 414
...Arab ol the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her, in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...had scarcely a rag to cover him ; and his wife and his children were starving. The sum offered was great — it would provide him and his family with... | |
| William Youatt - 1851 - Počet stránok 516
...Arab of the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...— and his wife and children were starving. The sum ottered was great, — it would provide him and his family with food for life. At length, and reluctantly,... | |
| William Youatt - 1857 - Počet stránok 582
...Arab of the desert consisted of a mare. The French consul offered to purchase her in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIV. The Arab would have...— and his wife and children were starving. The sum oilered was great, — it would provide him and his family with food for life. At length, and reluctantly,... | |
| Madeline Leslie - 1864 - Počet stránok 178
...French consul saw her, and offered to purchase her, in order to send her to his sovereign, Louis XIY. The Arab would have rejected the proposal at once with indignation and scorn, but for his poverty. He had no means of supplying his most urgent wants, or procuring the barest necessaries... | |
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