Stories of wild beasts, by Ascott R. HopeGall & Inglis, 1885 - 304 strán (strany) |
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adventure African African buffaloes animal appeared arms attack bear beast black rhinoceros body brought brute buffalo bull bush cage calomel camp carcase caught chance charge chase Chunee claws comrades creature cubs danger dark dead death dogs elephant elephant's enemy escape excited eyes Father Murphy feet fight fire flesh foot formidable G. P. Sanderson giraffe gorilla grizzly bear growl hand head heard herd hippopotamus horse howdah howl hundred hunters hunting hyænas Indian jungle keddah keep keeper killed legs lion lion's look mahout master menagerie monkey natives neck night once ostrich Polar bear prairie prey rage rhinoceros rifle roar ropes round rush savage seemed shot shouts side sight Sir Samuel Baker skin sometimes soon spring stood story tail teeth tiger took trees trunk turned tusks victim wild beasts wolf wolves wounded yards young
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Strana 225 - Nor scratch had he, nor harm, nor dread, But the same couch beneath Lay a great wolf, all torn and dead, Tremendous still in death. Ah, what was then Llewellyn's pain ! For now the truth was clear : The gallant hound the wolf had slain, To save Llewellyn's heir. Vain, vain was all Llewellyn's woe : " Best of thy kind, adieu ! The frantic deed which laid thee low, This heart shall ever rue.
Strana 227 - We rustled through the leaves like wind, Left shrubs and trees and wolves behind; By night I heard them on the track, Their troop came hard upon our back, With their long gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hate, and hunter's fire...
Strana 217 - These buffaloes had been chased down the precipice in a way very common on the Missouri, and by which vast herds are destroyed in a moment. The mode of hunting is to select one of the most active and fleet young men, who is disguised by a...
Strana 227 - ... three cubs go on their way. "They took the boy to the village, but had to tie him, for he was very restive, and struggled hard to rush into every hole or den they came near. They tried to make him speak, but could get nothing from him but an angry growl or snarl. He was kept for several days at the village, and a large crowd assembled every day to see him. When a grown-up person came near him, he became alarmed, and tried to steal away ; but when a child came near him...
Strana 32 - If they continue to wound him ineffectually till he waxes furious and desperate ; or if the horses, startled by his terrific roar, grow frantic with terror and burst loose, the business becomes rather serious, and may end in mischief — especially if all the party are not men of courage, coolness, and experience.
Strana 89 - ... occasioned. But the effect of the application was wonderful, for the eye was in a great degree restored, and the elephant could partially see. The doctor was in consequence ready to operate similarly on the other eye on the following day ; and the animal, when he was brought out and heard the doctor's voice, lay down of himself, placed his head quietly on one side, curled up his trunk, drew in his breath like a human being about to endure a painful operation, gave a sigh of relief when it was...
Strana 33 - Accordingly, in they went, (in spite of the warnings of some more prudent men among us,) to within fifteen or twenty paces of the spot where the animal lay concealed. He was couched among the roots of a large evergreen bush, with a small space of open ground on one side of it; and they fancied, on approaching, tha.t they saw him distinctly, lying glaring at them from under the foliage.
Strana 35 - ... which we had distinguished by the name of Douglas Water. The dogs were barking round, but afraid to approach him, for he was now beginning to growl fiercely, and to brandish his tail in a manner that showed he was meditating mischief. The Hottentots, by taking a circuit between him and the mountain, crossed the stream and took a position on the top of a precipice overlooking the spot where he stood. Another party of us occupied a position on the other side of the glen ; and placing the poor fellow...
Strana 34 - The danger of our friends, however, rendered it at the moment too terrible to enjoy either the grand or the ludicrous part of the picture. We expected every instant to see one or more of them torn in pieces, — nor, though the rest of the party were standing within fifty paces with their guns cocked and levelled, durst we fire for their assistance. One was lying under the lion's feet, and the others scrambling towards us in such a way as to intercept our aim upon him.
Strana 16 - Woodhouse; it immediately put him in mind that he had committed an act of imprudence in stirring. The motionless state in which he persevered after this broad hint showed that he had learned to profit by the painful lesson. He now lay, bleeding and disabled, under the foot of a mighty and an irritated enemy. Death was close upon him, armed with every terror calculated to appal the heart of a prostrate and defenceless man. Just as this world, with all its flitting honours, was on the point of vanishing...