 The rites of hospitality being thus performed towards a stranger in distress; my worthy benefactress (pointing to the mat, and telling me I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family...  The Pamphleteer - Page 396edited by - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1799 - 520 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung... | |
 | William Wilberforce - Slave trade - 1807 - 412 pages
...apprehension), called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I was myself the subject of it; it was sung... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1807 - 594 pages
...apprehension) called to tiie female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung... | |
 | Henry Smithers - Poetry, English - 1807 - 254 pages
...apprehension), called to the female part of the family, who had stood gazing on me all the while, in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton;...which they continued to employ themselves great part pf the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore, for I was... | |
 | Thomas Gisborne - 1813 - 386 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, " who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to " resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their " labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore; for I was " myself the subject of it. It was... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa, West - 1813 - 374 pages
...of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume theirtask of spinning cotton, in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the mght. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was comyosed extempore, for T was myself the... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...apprehension. Her female domestics, who had stood gazing on him, in fixed astonishment, she then ordered to resume their task of spinning cotton, in. which they continued to employ themselves through the night. They lightened their labor by songs, one at least of which was evidently composed... | |
 | 1813 - 594 pages
...gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to reeume%their task of spinning cotton ; in wliich they continued to employ themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for I was myself the subject of it. It was sung... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1814 - 234 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, wko had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton;...themselves great part of the night. " They lightened their labour by songs, one of which iras composed extempore ; for I was myself the subject of it. It was... | |
 | Mungo Park - Africa - 1816 - 576 pages
...apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton...themselves great part of the night. They lightened their labour by songs, one of which was composed extempore ; for I \vas myself the subject of it. It was... | |
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