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... tide was out , which flowed but a little way up ; so we filled our jars , and feasted on the hare we had killed , and prepared to go on our way , having seen no footsteps of any human creature in that part of the country . As I had been ...
... tide was out , which flowed but a little way up ; so we filled our jars , and feasted on the hare we had killed , and prepared to go on our way , having seen no footsteps of any human creature in that part of the country . As I had been ...
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... tide beginning to flow , we lay still to go farther in . Xury , whose eyes were more about him than it seems mine were , calls softly to me , and tells me that we had best go farther off the shore ; " For , " says he , " look , yonder ...
... tide beginning to flow , we lay still to go farther in . Xury , whose eyes were more about him than it seems mine were , calls softly to me , and tells me that we had best go farther off the shore ; " For , " says he , " look , yonder ...
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... tide , and was driven up almost as far as the rock which I first mentioned , where I had been so bruised by the dashing me against it . This being within about a mile from the shore where I was , and the ship seeming to stand upright ...
... tide , and was driven up almost as far as the rock which I first mentioned , where I had been so bruised by the dashing me against it . This being within about a mile from the shore where I was , and the ship seeming to stand upright ...
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... tide ebbed so far out , that I could come within a quarter of a mile of the ship ; and here I found a fresh renewing of my grief , for I saw evidently , that if we had kept on board we had been all safe , that is to say , we had all got ...
... tide ebbed so far out , that I could come within a quarter of a mile of the ship ; and here I found a fresh renewing of my grief , for I saw evidently , that if we had kept on board we had been all safe , that is to say , we had all got ...
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... tide began to flow , though very calm , and I had the mortification to see my coat , shirt , and waistcoat , which I had left on shore upon the sand , swim away ; as for my breeches , which were only linen , and open - kneed , I swam on ...
... tide began to flow , though very calm , and I had the mortification to see my coat , shirt , and waistcoat , which I had left on shore upon the sand , swim away ; as for my breeches , which were only linen , and open - kneed , I swam on ...
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Página 142 - I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet, for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying. I was lord of the whole manor ; or, if I pleased, I might call myself king or emperor over the whole country which I had possession of.
Página 172 - I went on, but terrified to the last degree : looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man. Nor is it possible to describe how many various shapes...
Página 56 - My next work was to view the country and seek a proper place for my habitation, and where to stow my goods to secure them from whatever might happen. Where I was, I yet knew not ; whether on the continent, or on an island ; whether inhabited, or not inhabited ; whether in danger of wild beasts, or not. There was a hill, not above a mile from me, which rose up very steep and high, and which seemed to overtop some other hills, which lay as in a ridge from it, northward.
Página 48 - I stood still a few moments to recover breath and till the water went from. me, and then took to my heels and ran, with what strength I had, farther towards the shore. But neither would this deliver me from the fury of the sea, which came pouring in after me again ; and twice more I was lifted up by the waves and carried forward as before, the shore being very flat.
Página 53 - ... strong enough to bear any reasonable weight. My next care was what to load it with, and how to preserve what I laid upon it from the surf of the sea; but I was not long considering this.
Página 49 - I walked about on the shore, lifting up my hands and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance, making a thousand gestures and motions which I cannot describe ; reflecting upon all my comrades (that were drowned, and that there should not be one soul saved but myself; for, as for them, I never saw them afterwards, or any signs of them, except three of their hats, one cap, and two shoes, that were not fellows.
Página 224 - I observed that the two who swam were yet more than twice as long swimming over the creek as the fellow was that fled from them. It came now very warmly upon my thoughts, and indeed irresistibly, that now was my time to get me a servant, and perhaps a companion, or assistant...
Página 170 - It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.
Página 74 - I had everything so ready at my hand, that it was a great pleasure to me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of all necessaries so great. And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment ; for indeed at first I was in too much...
Página 172 - I came home to my fortification, not feeling, as we say, the ground I went on, but terrified to the last degree, looking behind me at every two or three steps, mistaking every bush and tree, and fancying every stump at a distance to be a man...