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... heads ; but on the whole it will probably be allowed that the arrangement is the best that could be adopted under the circumstances . It is necessary to add that in this translation numerous facts have been added to bring certain ...
... heads ; but on the whole it will probably be allowed that the arrangement is the best that could be adopted under the circumstances . It is necessary to add that in this translation numerous facts have been added to bring certain ...
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... head of his countrymen , clothed in a lion's hide , and brandishing a club . So great was his strength that he would sometimes bind a cord round his head , and , retaining his breath , break it by the swelling and pressure of the veins ...
... head of his countrymen , clothed in a lion's hide , and brandishing a club . So great was his strength that he would sometimes bind a cord round his head , and , retaining his breath , break it by the swelling and pressure of the veins ...
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... head to abandon his chosen name , and adopt that of a famous gladiator who had just died . His pleasure then was to descend into the arena , and , laying aside the purple , which he dishonoured by his profligacy and extravagance , to ...
... head to abandon his chosen name , and adopt that of a famous gladiator who had just died . His pleasure then was to descend into the arena , and , laying aside the purple , which he dishonoured by his profligacy and extravagance , to ...
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... heads , threw themselves forward , butting like rams . This was not all . " Observe , " says Lucian , how one lifts his adversary by the legs , as they do in the gymnasiums , throws him to the earth , casts himself upon him , prevents ...
... heads , threw themselves forward , butting like rams . This was not all . " Observe , " says Lucian , how one lifts his adversary by the legs , as they do in the gymnasiums , throws him to the earth , casts himself upon him , prevents ...
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... head against head . As a rule , before coming WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS . 33 RACE OF WOMEN IN Wurtemburg.
... head against head . As a rule , before coming WRESTLING AND WRESTLERS . 33 RACE OF WOMEN IN Wurtemburg.
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Seite 272 - Sith it be no better," said Locksley, " I am content to try my fortune ; on condition that when I have shot two shafts at yonder mark of Hubert's,- he shall be bound to shoot one at that which I shall propose." "That is but fair," answered Prince John, "and it shall not be refused thee.
Seite 339 - Arms and Armour in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: also, a Descriptive Notice of Modern Weapons. Translated from the French of MP Lacombe, and with a Preface, Notes, and one additional Chapter on Arms and Armour in England. By CHAS. BOUTELL, MA, author of "English Heraldry,
Seite 339 - The Young Man in the Battle of Life. By the Rev. DR. LANDELS, Author of " Woman : her Position and Power,
Seite 274 - Hubert resumed his place, and not neglecting the caution which he had received from his adversary, he made the necessary allowance for a very light air of wind, which had just arisen, and shot so successfully that his arrow alighted in the very centre of the target. " A Hubert! a Hubert!" shouted the populace, more interested in a known person than in a stranger. " In the clout! — in the clout! — a Hubert forever!" " Thou canst not mend that shot, Locksley," said the Prince, with an insulting...
Seite 274 - Locksley. And letting fly his arrow with a little more precaution than before, it lighted right upon that of his competitor, which it split to shivers. The people who stood around were so astonished at his wonderful dexterity, that they could not even give vent to their surprise in their usual clamour. * This must be the devil, and no man of flesh and blood,' whispered the yeomen to each other ; ' such archery was never seen since a bow was first bent in Britain.
Seite 193 - For me, degenerate modern wretch, Though in the genial month of May, My dripping limbs I faintly stretch, And think I've done a feat today. But since he...