... guard for the hand ; while in the girdle appeared a small dagger, which served also as a knife: added to these was a dag or pistol, which, though small, considering the dimensions of the arms then used, would have caused any horse-pistol of the present... Darnley: Or, the Field of the Cloth of Gold - Стр. 9авторы: George Payne Rainsford James - 1830 - Страниц: 340Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Donald Grant Mitchell - 1897 - Страниц: 320
...of martial exercise" — came dashing into old country quietudes, with his visor up ; or, perhaps in "a Genoa bonnet of black velvet, round which his rich chestnut hair coiled in profusion" — making the welkin ring with his — " How now, Sir Villain ! " I caught sight... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1903 - Страниц: 888
...perpendicularly down his thigh, with the hilt shaped in form of a cross, without any further guard (or . . . Very different, however, were his mental sensations, if one might believe the knitted look of... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1904 - Страниц: 888
...considering the dimensions of the arms then used, would have caused any horse-pistol of the presen! s we who, lost in stormy visions, keep With phantoms an unprofitable strife, And in mad trance . . . Very different, however, were his mental sensations, if one might believe the knitted look of... | |
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