 | 1826 - 622 pages
...gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning...matter, sir ?" said I, softly ; " is any thing amiss ?" '* What'e the matter?" answered he, surlily; " why the vampires have been sucking me to death."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1826 - 624 pages
...gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning prayers. " What " What is the matter, Sir," said I, softly ; " is any thing amiss ?" " What's the matter ?" answered... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 pages
...this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then, letting fall an imprecation, just about the time he 'ought to have been saying his morning...thing amiss ? " " What's the matter ? " answered he sullenly ; " why the Vampyres have been sucking me to death." As soon as there was light enough, I... | |
 | 1834 - 700 pages
...heard this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning...prayers. ' What is the matter, Sir,' said I softly; 'is anything amiss?' 'What's the matter?' answered he sullenly; 'why the vampires have been sucking me... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1839 - 322 pages
...gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning...any thing amiss?" " What's the matter !" answered he M 2 THIRD surlily ; " why, the vampires have been sucking me — to death." As soon as there was light... | |
 | William Swainson - 1840 - 394 pages
...then letting fall an imprecation or two. ' What is the matter, sir ? ' said I softly. ' Is anything amiss ? ' 'What's the matter ! ' answered he surlily,...as there was light enough, I went to his hammock. ' See,' said he, ' how these infernal imps have been drawing my life's blood !' On examining his foot,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 pages
...gentleman mu:tering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning...prayers. "What is the matter, sir ? " said I, softly; "is anything amiss ?"—" What's the matter!" answered he, surlily; " why, the vampires have been sucking... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting full an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning prayers. " What is the matrer, sir ?" said 1, softly ; " is any thing amiss ?" — " Whal's the matter?" answered he, surlily;... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 354 pages
...gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning...What's the matter ? ' answered he, surlily ; ' why, the vampyres have been sucking me to death.' As soon as there was light enough, I went to his hammock,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time be ought to have been snying his morning prayers, " What is the matter, sir ?" said I, softly ; " is any thing amiss V— " What's the matter :" answered he, surlily ; " why, the vampires have been sucking me to death."... | |
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Paumaron with a Scotch gentleman, by name Tarbet. We hung our hammocks in the thatched loft of a planter's house. Next morning I heard this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he... 
