 | Timothy Flint - 1830 - 696 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...sacrifice of ravening hunger : so great at last was ihcir desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to sink them, preferring... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1828 - 430 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...last was their desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus, rather than any longer... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1828 - 428 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...last was their desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus, rather than any longer... | |
 | 1828 - 268 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...last, was their desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to siuk them, preferring to perish thus, rather than any longer... | |
 | Carlo Giuseppe G. Botta - 1828 - 1042 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed, under the apprehension that they II might be made the sacrifice of ravening hunger : so great at last was their desperation, that they... | |
 | 1829 - 852 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...last was their desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus, rather than any longer... | |
 | 1829 - 854 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...last was their desperation, that they endeavoured to pierce holes in the barges in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus, rather than any longer... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1829 - 898 ページ
...each other, their sinister glances betrayed the horrid fear of being at last reduced to a more fearful resource. In the end, their French guards were removed,...ravening hunger : so great at last was their desperation, thr^ "ideavouretl to pierce holr es in order to sink 'ng to perish thus, 7nger endure the ger. As common... | |
 | 1845 - 648 ページ
...sacrifice to ravening hunger; and so great did their desperation finally become, that they endeavored to scuttle their floating prisons in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus rather than endure any longer the tortures of famine. Pestilence, as usual, came in the rear of such calamities;... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 262 ページ
...sacrifice to ravening hunger ; and so great did their desperation finally become, that they endeavored to scuttle their floating prisons in order to sink them, preferring to perish thus rather than endure any longer the tortures of famine. Pestilence, as usual, came in the rear of such calamities... | |
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... such was the dire necessity at last, that for some days they were left without nutriment of any description. They eat their shoes, they devoured the leather of their pouches, and, scowling darkly at each other, their sinister glances betrayed the... 