The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy, Brothers of the Benedictine Monastery, Mont Benger, Volume 9T. Boys, 1826 |
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... given signal they reached out their trunks to the table , and fell to eating and drinking with as much propriety as if they had been as many honest citizens . ELEPHANT ROPE DANCING . The ease with which the elephant is taught to per ...
... given signal they reached out their trunks to the table , and fell to eating and drinking with as much propriety as if they had been as many honest citizens . ELEPHANT ROPE DANCING . The ease with which the elephant is taught to per ...
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... given to the dog as a place of retreat , to enable him to recover breath . Every thing being prepared , the dog no sooner found himself at liberty , than he ran round his adversary , avoiding his blows , and menacing him on every side ...
... given to the dog as a place of retreat , to enable him to recover breath . Every thing being prepared , the dog no sooner found himself at liberty , than he ran round his adversary , avoiding his blows , and menacing him on every side ...
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... given that she should no longer be molested ; being thus left to herself , she ran about the yard with him all night , and what is particularly remarkable , whenever the dog went out of the yard and ran into the village , the goose ...
... given that she should no longer be molested ; being thus left to herself , she ran about the yard with him all night , and what is particularly remarkable , whenever the dog went out of the yard and ran into the village , the goose ...
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... given to Husafell , in Jutland , celebrity which it might not have otherwise possessed , is supposed by Alafsen and Porelsen to be a variation of the wood or economical mouse . In a country , says Mr. Pennant , where berries are but ...
... given to Husafell , in Jutland , celebrity which it might not have otherwise possessed , is supposed by Alafsen and Porelsen to be a variation of the wood or economical mouse . In a country , says Mr. Pennant , where berries are but ...
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... given , " Go fetch thy master , " he would immediately set off , and proceed directly to the town , which lay at the distance of more than a mile from the place of his master's residence he would then stop at the door of every house ...
... given , " Go fetch thy master , " he would immediately set off , and proceed directly to the town , which lay at the distance of more than a mile from the place of his master's residence he would then stop at the door of every house ...
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Page 167 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 107 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Page 62 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come ; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page 78 - He was scarcely a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life ; but, as soon as he discovered that it was his duty to do so, and that it obliged me, I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions.
Page 167 - We have said that Mr Watt was the great improver of the steam-engine ; but, in truth, as to all that is admirable in its structure, or vast in its utility, he should rather be described as its inventor. It was by his inventions that its action was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable...
Page 36 - ... had instantly disappeared. Struck with this singular circumstance, he remained at home one day ; and when the dog as usual departed with his piece of cake, he resolved to follow him, and find out the cause of his strange procedure.
Page 79 - Sirrah had been unable to manage, until he came to that commanding situation. But what was our astonishment when we discovered by degrees that not one lamb of the whole flock was wanting! How he had got all the divisions collected in the dark, is beyond my comprehension. The charge was left...
Page 47 - The friend, in the meanwhile, saw his own sympathetic needle moving of itself to every letter which that of his correspondent pointed at. By this means they talked together across a whole continent, and conveyed their thoughts to one another in an instant, over cities or mountains, seas or deserts.
Page 78 - On our way home, however, we discovered a body of lambs at the bottom of a deep ravine, called the Flesh...
Page 103 - ... timber, his trumpetlike note and loud strokes resound through the solitary savage wilds, of which he seems the sole lord and inhabitant. Wherever he frequents he leaves numerous \ monuments of his industry behind him. We there see enormous...