 I got upon my feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return and take me up again. But I soon found it was impossible to avoid it ; for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as...  Parliamentary Papers - Page 229by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1871Full view - About this book
 | Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavored to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return and...the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and 20 as furious as an enemy, which I had no means or strength to contend with. My business was to hold... | |
 | Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 376 pages
...on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should rei0 turn and take me up again. I soon found it was impossible to avoid it ; for I...saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill. My business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water, if I could. The wave that came... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 272 pages
...main Land than I expected, I got upon my Feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the Land as fast as I could, before another Wave should return, and...Enemy which I had no Means or Strength to contend with ; my Business was to hold my Breath, and raise my self upon the Water, if I could ; and so by swimming... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1927 - 298 pages
...main Land than I expected, I got upon my Feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the Land as fast as I could, before another Wave should return, and...Enemy which I had no Means or Strength to contend with ; my Business was to hold my Breath, and raise my self upon the Water, if I could ; and so by swimming... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Juvenile Fiction - 1983 - 394 pages
...the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavored to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return and...which I had no means or strength to contend with. My business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water, if I could ; and so, by swimming,... | |
 | Elizabeth George Speare - Juvenile Fiction - 1983 - 149 pages
...for though I swam very well, yet I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw hreath , . . for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy. . . . Matt looked up from the page. There was not a flicker of interest in the boy's face. Had he underst<x>da... | |
 | John Jackman, Wendy Wren - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2014 - 92 pages
...the mainland than I expected, I got upon my feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the land as fast as I could, before another wave should return and...again. But I soon found it was impossible to avoid it ... The wave that came upon me again, buried me at once twenty or thirty feet deep in its own body;... | |
 | Richard Phillips - History - 1997 - 220 pages
...Crusoe is almost completely passive against the forces of Nature, as he admits. I saw the sea coming after me, as high as a great hill, and as furious as an enemy, which I had no means of strength to contend with: my business was to hold my breath, and raise myself upon the water, if... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - Fiction - 1998 - 356 pages
...main Land than I expected, I got upon my Feet, and endeavoured to make on towards the Land as fast as I could, before another Wave should return, and...Enemy which I had no Means or Strength to contend with ; my Business was to hold my Breath, and raise my self upon the Water, if I could ; and so by swimming... | |
 | Bob Barton - Education - 2000 - 146 pages
...for though I swam very well, yet I could not deliver myself from the waves so as to draw breath . . . for I saw the sea come after me as high as a great bill, and as furious as an enemy. . . . From The Sign of the Beaver, by Elizabeth George Speare I once... | |
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