 Dthemetri to assure them that my bread should be equally shared with all. Dthemetri, however, did not approve of this concession ; he assured me quite positively that the Arabs thoroughly understood, the agreement, and that if they were now without food,...  Hood's Magazine - Pàgina 3721845Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1846 - 352 pàgines
...the wretched purpose of bettering their bargain by the value of a few paras'-worth of bread. This new suggestion made me look at the affair in a new light....had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I well knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1849 - 280 pàgines
...assured me quite positively that the Arabs thoroughly understood the agreement, and that if they w ere now without food, they had wilfully brought themselves...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness ; I well knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1857 - 394 pàgines
...for the wretched purpose of bettering their bargain by the value of a few paras' worth of bread. 13. This suggestion made me look at the affair in a new...privation to which my concession would subject me; but it seemed to me that the scheme had something of audacity in it, and was calculated to try the... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1864 - 348 pàgines
...really mistaken the terms of the arrangement, and feeling that the bore of being put upon half rations would be a less evil (and even to myself a less inconvenience)...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result in... | |
 | mrs. J Werner Laurie - 1869 - 200 pàgines
...really mistaken the terms of the arrangement, and feeling that the bore of being put upon half rations would be a less evil (and even to myself a less inconvenience)...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness : I well knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1885 - 224 pàgines
...this concession ; he assured me quite positively that the Arabs thoroughly understood the terms of the agreement, and that, if they were now without...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result in... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1904 - 432 pàgines
...wretcied purpose of bettering their bangarn by die falue of a few paras' worth of bread. This snggesuou made me look at the affair in a new light. I should have been glad enough to pot up with the slight privation to which my concession would subject me, and could have borne to witness... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1905 - 330 pàgines
...they had wilfully brought them- Judicious selves into this strait for the wretched purpose of hardness bettering their bargain by the value of a few paras'...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result in... | |
 | Alexander William Kinglake - 1906 - 342 pàgines
...they were now without food, they had wilfully brought themselves into this strait for the wretchea purpose of bettering their bargain by the value of...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result in... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 132 pàgines
...really mistaken the terms of the arrangement, and feeling that the bore of being put upon half rations would be a less evil (and even to myself a less inconvenience)...had something of audacity in it, and was well enough calculated to try the extent of my softness. I knew the danger of allowing such a trial to result in... | |
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