 | History - 1793 - 532 pages
...neighbour's knee, his body {looping, his head low and forward, and mouth open, very like an ideot, turns to the one whofe cartridge is firft ready, who...into his mouth, •which is fo full that he is in conllant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would feem to be,... | |
 | History - 1790 - 522 pages
...forward, and mouth open very like an idiot, he turns to the one whofe cartridge is firft ready, who fluids the whole of it into his mouth, which is fo full, that he is in confiant danger of being choaked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would feem to be,... | |
 | English poetry - 1791 - 624 pages
...forward, and mouth open very like an ideot, turns to the one whofe cartridge is fiift ready, who Hurts the whole of it into his mouth, which is fo full that he is in confiant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would feem to be,... | |
 | History - 1793 - 542 pages
...neighbour's knee, his body ¡looping, his head low and forward, and mouth с p^n, very like an ideot, turns to the one whofe Cartridge is firft ready, who...he is in conftant danger of being choked. This is a marl; of grandeur. The greater the man would feem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth; and... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1797 - 328 pages
...neighbour's knee, his body Hooping, his head low and forward, and mouth open very like an idiot, he turns to the one whofe cartridge is firft ready, who fluffs the whole of it into his mouth, which is kept fo full, that he is in conftant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater... | |
 | James Bruce - Blue Nile River (Ethiopia and Sudan) - 1798 - 422 pages
...head low and forward, and mouth open very like an idiot, he turns to the one whofe cartridge is fi.rfl ready, who fluffs the whole of it into his mouth,...is fo full that he is in conftant danger of being choaked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would feem to be, the larger piece he takes... | |
 | James Bruce, Samuel Shaw - Ethiopia - 1814 - 408 pages
...neighbour's knee, his body {looping, his head low and forward, and mouth open very like an idiot, he turns to the one whofe cartridge is firft ready, who fluffs the whole of it into his ir.cuth, which is fo full that he is in conftant danger of being choaked. This is a mark of grandeur.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Discoveries in geography - 1802 - 346 pages
...first ready, who stuffs the whole of it into his mouth, which is kept so full, that he is in constant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, the... | |
 | James Bruce - Egypt - 1804 - 518 pages
...is first ready, who stuffs the whole of it into his mouth, which is so full that he is in constant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, . the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - Geography - 1823 - 512 pages
...cartridge is first ready, who stuffs the whole into his mouth, which is so full, that he is in constant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater a man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing... | |
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... he makes in chewing it, the more polite he is thought to be. They have, indeed, a proverb that says, 'Beggars and thieves only eat small pieces, or without making a noise. 
