| 1820 - 590 pages
...said, " if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow bush. " — Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing, at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| Walter Scott - Anglo-Saxons - 1820 - 356 pages
...me," he said, " if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing, at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1822 - 550 pages
...me," he said, " if you please—I go but to cut a rod from the next willow bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1823 - 304 pages
...me," he said, " if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...multitude, induced him to alter his ungenerous purpose. Locksly returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight,... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 410 pages
...me," he said, "if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| Walter Scott - 1844 - 748 pages
...me," he said, "if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| Walter Scott - 1848 - 754 pages
...me," he said, " if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...purpose, Locksley returned almost instantly with a willowwand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. He... | |
| Walter Scott - 1853 - 546 pages
...me," he said, " if you please — I go but to cut a rod from the next willow-bush." Prince John made a signal that some attendants should follow him in case...multitude, induced him to alter his ungenerous purpose. observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target so broad as had hitherto... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 410 pages
...signal that some attendants should follow him in case of his escape : but the cry of " Shame ! shame I" which burst from the multitude, induced him to alter...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
| Walter Scott - 1855 - 654 pages
...Shame ! shame !" which burst from the multitude, induced him to alter his ungenerous purpose. Locksloy returned almost instantly with a willow wand about...rather thicker than a man's thumb. He began to peel this with great composure, observing at the same time, that to ask a good woodsman to shoot at a target... | |
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