 | James Kirke Paulding - England - 1822 - 268 pages
...bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free; that if he was bitten once, then what a shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing...shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and slaver about his physiognomy, was a matter of goodly relief." In the evening, after this " goodly relief,"... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...the assault. If he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another, to get free; if he were taken once, then what shift with biting, with clawing,...shake his ears twice or thrice, with the blood and slaver about his physiognomy, was a matter of goodly relief,"* It is due, however, to Elizabeth, to... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to free himself, and when ho was loose to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the saliver about his ' fiznamy,' was a matter of goodly relief." This was an amusement for persons of... | |
 | English essays - 1833 - 614 pages
...the force and experience of the bear again to avoid the assault If he was bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free, that if he was...was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice, with tbe blood and the slaver about his physiognomy, was a matter of goodly refief."* * Laneham's Letter,... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1838 - 492 pages
...by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing, and tumbling, he would work and wind himself from them ; and, when he was loose, to...ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy." The same writer tells us, that thirteen bears were provided for this... | |
 | 1869 - 514 pages
...shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling, he would work to free himself, and when he was loose to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the saliver about his ' fiznamy,' was a matter of goodly relief." This was an amusement for persons of... | |
 | Harrow school - 1865 - 374 pages
...assaults ; if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ; but if he were taken once, then what shift with biting, with clawing,...shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and slaver about his physiognomy, was a matter of goodly relief." So here we have another instance of the... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - Charities - 1851 - 414 pages
...by what shift with biting, with clawinz, with roaring, with tossing and tumbling, he would work and wind himself from them ; and, when he was loose, to...ears twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy." The suffering which constituted the great delight of the sport was... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 344 pages
...in one place how he would pinch in another to get free; if he were taken once, then what shift, what biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling he would work to wind himself from them. It was," says the chronicler, adding some particulars as to the bear shaking the blood from his ears,... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 652 pages
...one place how he would pinch in another to get free ; if he were taken once, then what shift, what biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing, and tumbling he would work to wind himself from them. It was," says the chronicler, adding some particulars as to the bear shaking the blood from his cars,... | |
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... take his advantage ; and the force and experience of the bear again to avoid his assaults : if he were bitten in one place, how he would pinch in another to get free ; that if he were taken once, then... 
