 You can never know, till you try it, what a dead pull a river makes against a man. Death himself had me by the heels, for this was his last ambuscade, and he must now join personally in the fray. And still I held to my paddle. At last I dragged myself...  An Inland Voyage and Travels with a Donkey - Halaman 84oleh Robert Louis Stevenson - 1919 - 262 halamanTampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1878 - 262 halaman
...breathless sop, with a mingled sense of humour and injustice. A poor figure I must have presented to Bunts upon the hill-top with his team. But there was the...clung to his paddle." The Cigarette had gone past a while before ; for, as I might have observed, if I had been a little less pleased with the universe... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 644 halaman
...was his last ambuscado, and he must now join personally in the fray. And still I held to my paddles. At last I dragged myself on to my stomach on the trunk,...tomb, if ever I have one, I mean to get these words in scribed: "He clung to his paddle." The Cigarette had gone past a while before; for, as I might have... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 628 halaman
...was his last ambuscado, and he must now join personally in the fray. And still I held to my paddles. At last I dragged myself on to my stomach on the trunk,...tomb, if ever I have one, I mean to get these words in scribed: "He clung to his paddle." The Cigarette had gone past a while before; for, as I might have... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 384 halaman
...myself on to my stomach on the trunk, and lay there a breathless sop, with a mingled sense of humour and injustice. A poor figure I must have presented...The Cigarette had gone past awhile before; for, as I might have observed, if I had been a little less pleased with the universe at the moment, there was... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1895 - 384 halaman
...myself on to my stomach on the trunk, and lay there a breathless sop, with a mingled sense of humour and injustice. A poor figure I must have presented...paddle in my hand. On my tomb, if ever I have one, 1 mean to get these words inscribed : " He clung to his paddle." The Cigarette had gone past awhile... | |
 | 1897 - 632 halaman
...stomach on the trunk, and lay there a breathless sop, with a mingled sense of humour and injustice. . . . But there was the paddle in my hand. On my tomb, if...these words inscribed : ' He clung to his paddle.' " How characteristic of the man's handHo< to-hand struggle with death in life ! How fitting an epitaph... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 halaman
...left clinging, but it was longer than I cared about. My thoughts were of a grave and almost somber character, but I still clung to my paddle. The stream...The Cigarette had gone past awhile before ; for, as I might have observed, if I had been a little less pleased with the universe at the moment, there was... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - 1898 - 240 halaman
...myself on to my stomach on the trunk, and lay there a breathless sop, with a mingled sense of humour and injustice. A poor figure I must have presented...clung to his paddle." The Cigarette had gone past a while before ; for, as I might have observed, if I had been a little less pleased with the universe... | |
 | Evelyn Blantyre Simpson - 1898 - 354 halaman
...became, in the words of his friend Mr. Henley — " The master of his fate, The captain of his soul." "On my tomb, if ever I have one, I mean to get these words inscribed : ' He clung to his paddle," " Louis said in his first book, An Inland Voyage. In this watery journey, the Arethusa had borne him... | |
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