I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker and longer than our ordinary beefsteaks, cut out of the higher part of the buttock of the beast. How it was done I cannot positively say, because, judging the cow was to be killed from the moment... The Family Library (Harper). - Page 2731842Full view - About this book
| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...theirs, and they could not sell her. This awakened my curiosity ; I let my people go forward, and stayed myself till I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two...surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head while the other... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pages
...I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker and longer than out ordinary beef steaks, cut out of the- higher part of the buttock of the...surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while the other... | |
| James Bruce - 1804 - 518 pages
...I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker, and longer than our ordinary beef steaks, cut out of the higher part of the buttock of the beast....surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while the other... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pages
...I saw^ with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker and longer than our ordinary beef steaks, cut out of the higher part of the buttock of the beast...surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while the other... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pages
...positively say, because, judging the cow was to be killed from the moment I saw the knife drawn, I was riot anxious to view that catastrophe, which was by no...surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while the other... | |
| 1815 - 500 pages
...they were not then to kill her ; that she was not wholly theirs, and they could not sell her. This awakened my curiosity : I let my people go forward,...done, it surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were *pread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while... | |
| Sir Francis Bond Head - 1830 - 560 pages
...I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker and longer than our ordinary beef steaks, cut out of the higher part of the buttock of the beast....surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. ' One of them still continued holding the head, while the... | |
| 1830 - 550 pages
...I saw, with the utmost astonishment, two pieces, thicker and longer than our ordinary beef steaks, cut out of the higher part of the buttock of the beast....object of curiosity : whatever way it was done, it sui ely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. " One... | |
| James Augustus St. John - 1831 - 336 pages
...Continuing their journey through a beautiful country, diversified with hill and dale, and covered so thickly with flowering shrubs that the odours exhaling...or pins. A cataplasm of clay was then placed over all, and the poor beast, having been forced to rise, was driven on as before. This mode of cutting... | |
| 1831 - 320 pages
...to view that catastrophe, which was by no means an object of curiosity : however, in whatever manner it was done, it surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were spread upon the outside of one of their shields. One of them still continued holding the head, while the other... | |
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