| 1844 - 454 pages
...than six feet in length, and had a long triangular blade of more than twenty inches, with sharp edges. Finding, when on the terrace, that the lowness of...exactly like a hatchway on board ship, having a light cover of painted canvas stretched on a wooden frame. This opening he allowed to remain uncovered, that... | |
| The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...than six feet in length, and had a long triangular blade of more than twenty inches, with sharp edges. Finding, when on the terrace, that the lowness of...exactly like a hatchway on board ship, having a light cover of painted canvas stretched on a wooden frame. This opening he allowed to remain uncovered, that... | |
| 1844 - 688 pages
...attack. The perpendicular height of the stair was considerable, winding round a central stem. It was of peculiar construction, supported by four wooden posts,...exactly like a hatchway on board ship, having a light cover of painted canvas stretched on a wooden frame. This opening he allowed to remain uncovered, that... | |
| 1845 - 356 pages
...attack. The perpendicular height of the stair was considerable, winding round a central stem. It was of peculiar construction, supported by four wooden posts,...exactly like a hatchway on board ship, having a light cover of painted canvass stretched on a wooden frame. This opening he allowed to remain uncovered,... | |
| 1846 - 626 pages
...winding round a central it«m. It was of a peculiar construction, supported by four wooden posts, °pcn on all sides, and so narrow as to allow only a single armed man to • Of whom the writer of this was one. In a few minutes, hearing an assailant coming up, he prepared... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1917 - 332 pages
...the steepness and narrowness of the staircase, which allowed only a CHAP, xvn] VIZIER ALI 173 single man to ascend at a time. It opened at once to the terrace, like a hatchway on board ship; but it had only a light cover of painted canvas stretched on a wooden... | |
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