 | Laura Elizabeth Poor - 1880 - 492 pages
...astonishment. KING. Why did you try to prevent my touching it ? ATTENDANT. This amulet was given to the boy. Its peculiar virtue is that when it falls on the ground...no one except the father or mother of the child can pick it up unhurt: if another person touches it, it instantly becomes a serpent and bites them. KING... | |
 | Laura Elizabeth Poor - 1880 - 490 pages
...astonishment. KINO. Why did you try to prevent my touching it ? ATTENDANT. This amulet was given to the boy. Its peculiar virtue is that when it falls on the ground...no one except the father or mother of the child can pick it up unhurt : if another person touches it, it instantly becomes a serpent and bites them. KING... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 448 pages
...and look at each other in astonishment. } King — Why did you try to prevent my touching it? First Attendant — Listen, great monarch. This amulet,...Invincible," was given to the boy by the divine son of Marlchi soon after his birth, when the natal ceremony was performed. Its peculiar virtue is, that when... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1899 - 508 pages
...and look at each other in astonishment. KING. — Why did you try to prevent my touching it? FIRST ATTENDANT. — Listen, great Monarch. This amulet,...virtue is, that when it falls on the ground, no one excepting the father or mother of the child can touch it unhurt. KING. — And suppose another person... | |
 | 1899 - 510 pages
...and look at each other in astonishment. , KING. — Why did you try to prevent my touching it? FIRST ATTENDANT. — Listen, great Monarch. This amulet,...virtue is, that when it falls on the ground, no one excepting the father or mother of the child can touch it unhurt. KING. — And suppose another person... | |
 | Richard James Horatio Gottheil, Epiphanius Wilson - 1900 - 510 pages
...and look at each other in astonishment. KING. — Why did you try to prevent my touching it? FIRST ATTENDANT. — Listen, great Monarch. This amulet,...virtue is, that when it falls on the ground, no one excepting the father or mother of the child can touch it unhurt. KING. — And suppose another person... | |
 | Julian Hawthorne - 1906 - 456 pages
...astonishment. King. Why did you try to prevent my touching it? Attendant. This amulet was given to the boy. Its peculiar virtue is that when it falls on the ground...no one except the father or mother of the child can pick it up unhurt : if another person touches it, it instantly becomes a serpent and bites them. King... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1917 - 462 pages
...and look at each other in astonishment. KING. — Why did you try to prevent my touching it ? FIRST ATTENDANT. — Listen, great Monarch. This amulet,...virtue is, that when it falls on the ground, no one excepting the father or mother of the child can touch it unhurt. KING. — And suppose another person... | |
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Invincible," was given to the boy by the divine son of Marichi, soon after his birth, when the natal ceremony was performed. Its peculiar virtue is, that when it falls on the ground, no one excepting the father or mother of the child can touch it unhurt.... 