 | Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could...discharged no more arrows : but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over- against my right ear, I heard... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 374 pages
...not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could...greatest army they could bring against me, if they werexall of the same size with him that I saw. But fortune disposed otherwise of me. When the people... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still ; and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could...discharged no more arrows ; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over-against my right ear, I heard a... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pages
...not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still ; and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could...discharged no more arrows ; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over-against my right ear, I heard a... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still ; and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could...discharged no more arrows ; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over-against my right ear, I heard a... | |
 | Eliza Leslie - 1832 - 130 pages
...night, when one of my hands being already free I thought I could easily disengage myself; supposing that I might be a match for the greatest army they could...against me, if they were all of the same size with those I had seen. When the people observed that I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows ; but by... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...against me, if they were all of C the same size with him that I saw. But fortune disposed otherwise for me. When the people observed I was quiet, they discharged no more arrows ; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a... | |
 | 1847 - 380 pages
...infinitive it is future in its sense, as, "I thought it the most prudent method to lie still . . till night: when, my left hand being already loose, I could...for the greatest army they could bring against me - "t CAN is the next auxiliary, and is very simple in its use : for its only sense is that of capability... | |
 | General principles - 1847 - 132 pages
...infinitive it is future in its sense, as, " I thought it the most prudent method to lie still . . till night : when, my left hand being already loose, I...for the inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might he a match for the greatest army they could bring against me " * ยป Swift. CAN is the next auxiliary,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pages
...the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left arm being already loose I could easily free myself: and...discharged no more arrows ; but, by the noise I heard, I knew their numbers increased ; and about four yards from me, over against my right ear, I heard a... | |
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I had on me a buff jerkin, which they could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself; and as for the inhabitants, I had... 
