 | Henry Allon - 1886 - 618 страници
...streets a decrepit old man — his skin shrivelled up. his teeth gone, his body bent to the earth. He carried a staff in his hand to support his tottering...sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw.' On another occasion, when driving out, the young prince saw 'a sick and pain-worn man, with cramped... | |
 | Belgravia - 1866 - 616 страници
...of the royal progress in a manner that puts our modern pageantry to the blush — ' an old decrepit man, his skin shrivelled up, his head bald, his teeth...sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw.' Filled with emotion at this piteous spectacle, the prince inquires of his coachman the meaning of it,... | |
 | 1876 - 786 страници
...of the royal progress in a manner that puts our modern pageantry to the blush — ' an old decrepit man, his skin shrivelled up, his head bald, his teeth...sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw.' Filled with emotion at this piteous spectacle, the prince inquires of his coachman the meaning of it,... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1877 - 266 страници
...of an old decrepit man ; his skin shrivelled up, his head bald, his teeth gone, his body bent down. He carried a staff in his hand to support his tottering limbs ; whilst, as he proceeded, he gasped \rith pain, and the breath from his mouth sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw."* And then,... | |
 | John Stuart Blackie - 1878 - 278 страници
...man; his skin shrivelled up, his head bald, his teeth gone, his body bent down. He carried a staflf in his hand to support his tottering limbs; whilst,...sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw." * And then, on inquiry, he was informed by the coachman that this was by no means a singular spectacle,... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1885 - 636 страници
...decrepit old man — his skin shrivelled up, his teeth gone, his body bent to the earth. He carried & staff in his hand to support his tottering limbs ;...sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw.' On another occasion, -when driving out, the younj prince saw 'a sick and pain-worn man, with cramped... | |
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... he carried a staff in his hand to support his tottering limbs, whilst, as he proceeded, he gasped with pain, and the breath from his mouth sounded, as it came, like the raspings of a saw. 