The Tiger Prince, Or, Adventures in the Wilds of AbyssiniaRoberts & Brothers, 1865 - 311 oldal |
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Abyssinian added Aito Amharic animal Arkiko arms asked astonishment Axum beasts Bedad believe blood bouda brother Cairo camel chief Christian cried Joas cried Peter cynocephali death Dejatch Dixan eating Esther Ethiopia exclaimed Exorcist eyes Faith Falashas fear feet fire Gallas ghost gintleman girl Gondar ground Habesh Halai hand head heard honor hour Hush hyena Jidda journey Kasai killed laughing legs lives look Mahometan Massawa Master Master Ned McTow minutes monkey mouth mule Naybe never nigger night once ould poor powers priest prince Queen of Sheba queer Rais Rapparee replied Joas replied Peter replied the Doctor rifle rogue savage servant Shohos Shure side slave sleep soldier story tell Tigré told traveller tree tribe turned Verra true village warked warrior Weel whispered white pony wild woman words wounded
Népszerű szakaszok
201. oldal - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
201. oldal - Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
137. oldal - The drivers suddenly tripped up the cow, and gave the poor animal a very rude fall upon the ground, which was but the beginning of her sufferings. One of them sat across her neck, holding down her head by the horns, the other twisted the halter about her...
137. oldal - Upon my proposing they should bargain for part of the cow, my men answered, what they had already learned in conversation, that they were not then to kill her ; that she was not wholly theirs, and they could not sell her.
230. oldal - Others have their posts as scouts on the flanks or rear ; and all fulfil their duties with the utmost vigilance, calling out at times, apparently to keep order among the motley pack which forms the main body, or to give notice of the approach of any real or imagined danger. Their tones of voice on these occasions are so distinctly varied...
201. oldal - To prevent this, Saul caused to be rolled to him a great stone, and ordered those that killed their oxen, to cut their throats upon that stone. This was the only lawful way of killing animals for food ; the tying of the ox, and throwing it upon the ground was not permitted as equivalent.
231. oldal - A single cry of alarm makes them all halt and remain on the qui vive, till another bark in a different tone reassures them, and they then proceed on their march. Arrived at the corn-fields, the scouts take their position on the eminences all round, while the remainder of the tribe collect provision with the utmost expedition, filling their cheek-pouches as full as they can hold, and then tucking the heads of corn under their armpits. Now, unless there be a partition of the collected spoil, how do...
138. oldal - 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. How it was done I cannot positively say, because, judging the cow was to be killed from the moment I saw the knife drawn, I was not anxious to view that catastrophe, which was by no means an object of curiosity ; whatever way it was done, it surely was adroitly, and the two pieces were *pread upon the outside of one of their shields.
295. oldal - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil got well, the devil a monk was he.
47. oldal - Judith, they maintained till the beginning of the 17th century a chequered and independent existence. With the fall of their last ruler, and the capture of their strongholds, the Falashas were driven from their rocky homes, and forced to seek a refuge in the midst of their enemies, the detested Amharas.