... lay with one end on the ground and the other leaning against the gable as the men had left it when work ceased for the week. Now the two young house-carls took a start and ran up the sloping beam, to see how high up they could go. Presently the other... Memoirs of Chateaubriand, Vol - Página 261por François René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1848 - 4 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Edward Dodwell - 1819 - 620 páginas
...towards Laconia. The architraves have fallen; but that which belonged to the Laconian gate remains entire with one end on the ground, and the other leaning against the wall. It seems to be pervaded by a fissure which was occasioned probably by the fall; and it is likely... | |
| Edward Dodwell - 1819 - 630 páginas
...towards Laconia. The architraves have fallen; but that which belonged to the Laconian gate remains entire with one end on the ground, and the other leaning against the wall. It seems to be pervaded by a fissure which was occasioned probably by the fall; and it is likely... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1849 - 476 páginas
...listen to the tales of the scheik, and to take an interest in the stories of Antar and Job's horse. M. VIOLET offered me letters to the Onondagas, a remnant...our encampment, from which they did not stray far. It was not more than four in the afternoon when our hut was completed. I took up my gun, and went out... | |
| John Palliser - 1853 - 396 páginas
...together; and the very primitive substitute for a staircase was a large log of wood quite in the rough, with one end on the ground and the other leaning against the edge of the loft, and having notches cut in it, by means of which the inmates of the house went up... | |
| 1923 - 868 páginas
...ground, and on these poles were placed. White ash wood cut about two feet long and split fine was then placed with one end on the ground and the other leaning against the poles. The meats for the feast had already been prepared. On the day preceding the dance the Indians... | |
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