 | James Browne - 1838 - 558 pagina’s
...cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes, for many days, to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on...trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst. Such... | |
 | John Glen - 1847 - 164 pagina’s
...daggers. Famine, cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days up to the neck in water, and in the...roots of trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on many occasions, of which, taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neithat hungry nor thirsty... | |
 | James Browne - 1849 - 570 pagina’s
...cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes, for many days, to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on the bark anil roots of trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which taking only a bit... | |
 | Sir James Young Simpson - 1872 - 378 pagina’s
...daggers. Famine, cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes, for many days, up to the neck in water, and, in the...trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst." —... | |
 | David Sinclair (of Wigan, Eng.) - 1882 - 268 pagina’s
...continue several days up to their chins in water, and bear hunger many days. In the woods they live on bark and roots of trees. They prepare a certain kind of food for all occasions, a piece of which, of the size of a bean, prevents their feeling hunger or thirst."... | |
 | William Cochrane Learmonth - 1885 - 336 pagina’s
...cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on...trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which, taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst." Such... | |
 | 1885 - 340 pagina’s
...cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on...trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which, taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst." Such... | |
 | 1892 - 430 pagina’s
...cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on...trees. They prepare a certain kind of food on all occasions, of which, taking only a bit the size of a bean, they feel neither hunger nor thirst." Such... | |
 | Nicholas Dickson, William Sanderson - 1915 - 322 pagina’s
...:— " Famine, cold, and all sorts of labour Ihey can bear, for they will even stand in their marshes for many days up to the neck in water, and in the woods will live on the bark and roots of trees." The conditions of trench warfare were evidently paralleled in earlier times. Indeed, that idyllic picture... | |
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... firmness in standing. Their armour consists of a shield and a short spear, in the lower end of which is a brazen apple, whose sound, when struck, may terrify the enemy. They have also daggers. Famine, cold, and all sorts of labour they can bear, for... 