| Robert Calef - 1823 - 324 páginas
...which he had formerly given, of a preternatural strength ; and which were now produced against him. He was a very puny man, yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out, with... | |
| John Neal - 1828 - 344 páginas
...which he had formerly given, of a preternatural strength ; and which were now produced against him. He was a very puny man yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out, with... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 páginas
...instances which he had formerly given of preternatural strength, and which were now produced against him. He was a very puny man, yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven foot barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out with... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - 1852 - 304 páginas
...which he had formerly given, of a preternatural strength, and which were now produced against him. He was a very puny man, yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out, with... | |
| Joseph Frederick Berg - 1853 - 32 páginas
...which he had formerly given, of a preternatural strength, and which were now produced against him. He was a very puny man, yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out, with... | |
| Allen Putnam - 1853 - 158 páginas
...power, as all our powers are ; and Burroughs, having it, used it legitimately. Again : " Burroughs was a very puny man ; yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men could not steadily hold it out with... | |
| 1857 - 692 páginas
...this point, I am guilty of no exaggeration. " He was a very puny man," says tho reverend author ; " yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. He made nothing of taking up whole barrels filled with molasses or cider, in very disadvantageous postures,... | |
| 1857 - 716 páginas
...this point, I am guilty of no exaggeration. "He was a very puny man," says the reverend author ; " yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. He made nothing of taking up whole barrels filled with molasses or cider, in very disadvantageous postures,... | |
| Allen Putnam - 1858 - 86 páginas
...power, as all ,our powers are ; and Burroughs, having it, used it legitimately. Again : " Burroughs was a very puny man ; yet he had often done things beyond the strength of a giant. A gun of about seven feet barrel, and so heavy that strong men 'could not steadily hold it out with... | |
| Samuel P. Fowler - 1861 - 468 páginas
...which he had formerly given, of a preternatural ftrength; and which were now produced againft him. He was a very puny man, yet he had often done things beyond the ftrength of a giant. A gun of about feven feet barrel, and fo heavy that ftrong men could not fteadily... | |
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