 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it ah1 the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 528 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1860 - 528 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | Literature - 1860 - 874 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in order to give it a second turn, it wns necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant." Thus, notwithstanding their resistance, the... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1867 - 246 pages
...rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping 1 Siribeddi. 125 cautiously across it when, in order to give it a second...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...him steadily after her, and wound the rope round the proper tree, holding it all the time at its full tension, and stepping cautiously across it when, in...necessary to pass between the tree and the elephant. With a coil round the stem, however, it was beyond her strength to haul the prisoner close up, which... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - East Indies - 1880 - 458 pages
...stretched the out the captive, her com[td the herd to prevent any interhad to be dragged back some twenty or thirty yards, making furious resistance,...from the moment the decoys approached him till he WHS secured to a tree, was about three-quarters of an hour. The captives tried all possible ways to... | |
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... some twenty or thirty yards, making furious resistance, bellowing in terror, plunging on all sides, and crushing the smaller timber, which bent like reeds beneath his clumsy struggles. Siribeddi drew him steadily after her, and wound the rope round... 
