 | United States Fish Commission - Fish culture - 1885 - 518 pages
...McQuhae, of the Daedalus. I was a very young lad when his report of the strange encounter first appeared ; but it seemed to me then, and it seems to me still, that the sea-captain had much the best of the discussion with the representatives of science. There... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1908 - 1072 pages
...and moderate fashion. It certainly got rid of the privileged position of the owte-1869 beer -houses; but it seemed to me then, and it seems to me still, that in return for those two advantages it gave a greater expectancy of renewal of tenure of the ordinary... | |
 | Thomas Allibone Janvier - Aztecs - 1899 - 500 pages
...spinning out into space. For an age, as it seemed to me, I sank rapidly ; while that horrible fooling possessed me — the like of which people subject...it seems to me still as I think of it, a long ten vears. And a thrill of terror goes through me as I think also of how near I then came to a horrible... | |
 | Thomas Allibone Janvier - Aztecs - 1901 - 468 pages
...breath came irregularly and I heard a dismal ringing in my ears. Yet I had less to fear than either of the others who had crossed before me, for the ropes...very moment that I reached the farther side of the canon there was a little tinkling sound in the air above me, and the bar that I held was twitched out... | |
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the second sorriest white man in Sabinal." I don't know, but it seemed to me then, and it seems to me still, that there are many ways of living worse than the way of this village scavenger with a soft goatskin to sit on, and aromatic Black Horse tobacco... 