| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 446 pages
...and that you will soon revel1 in human blood." 8. " But still," said the young one, " I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could...child," said the mother, " this is a question which I can not answer, though I am reckoned the most subtle3 O bird of the mountain. When I was young, I used... | |
| Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...hunting, and that you will soon revel in human blood." "But still," said the young one, "I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter; I could never kill what I would not eat." " My child," said the mother," this is a question which I cannot answer, though I am... | |
| Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...this mutual slaughter; I would never kill what I could not eat." — "My child," said the vulture, "this is a question which I cannot answer, though...mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the eyry of an old vulture who dwelt upon the Carpathian rocks; he had made many observations; he knew... | |
| Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...the vulture, " this is a question wMch I cannot answer,9 though I am reckoned the most subtle bird oi the mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the tyry of an old vulture, who dwelt upon the Carpathian rocks ;10 he had made many observations ; he... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 pages
...and that you will soon revel ' in human blood." 9. "But still," said the young one, "I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could...child," said the mother, " this is a question which I can not answer, though I am reckoned the most subtle " bird of the mountain. 10. " When I was young,... | |
| Hugues Charles S. Cassal - 1875 - 182 pages
...of this mutual slaughter ; I would never kill what I could not eat.' ' My child,' said the vulture, 'this is a question which I cannot answer, though...mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the eyry of an old vulture, who dwelt upon the Carpathian rocks ; he had made many observations; he knew... | |
| Henri van Laun - 1876 - 120 pages
...eat." "My child," said the vulture, "this is a question which I cannot answer,7 though I am reckoned 8 the most subtle bird of the mountain. When I was young I used frequently to visit the eyry of an old vulture, who 1 For the convenience of the vulture, Pour faciliter le travail des vautours.... | |
| sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1877 - 198 pages
...hunting, and that you will soon revel in human blood." " But still," said the young one, " I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter. I could...am reckoned the most subtle bird of the mountain. There is in every herd, one that gives directions to the rest, and seems to be more eminently delighted... | |
| Alfred Janes - Shorthand - 1882 - 72 pages
...hunting, and that you will soon revel in human blood. But still, said the young one, I would gladly know the reason of this mutual slaughter; I could...which I cannot answer, though I am reckoned the most subtile bird of the mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the ayry of an old vulture,... | |
| Charles Cassal - 1899 - 184 pages
...of this mutual slaughter ; I would never kill what I could not eat.' ' My child,' said the vulture, 'this is a question which I cannot answer, though...mountain. When I was young, I used frequently to visit the eyry of an old vulture, who dwelt upon the Carpathian rocks ; he had made many observations; he knew... | |
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