...who expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that he has stumbled on a romance, full of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes, &c. For all this, indeed, he prepares us in his preface : — ' It has been my fate,' says he, ' to...

...befal a fearless adventurer, should sit down to tell with somewhat more than a traveller's veracity, ' of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes.' Such characters are rare in all ages and in all nations. But we verily believe, that the French have...

...fortunes, That I had past. I ran it through, e'en from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances : Of moving acidents by flood and field ; Of hair breadth 'scapes in th' imminent deadly bteacSi Or being taken...

...expects a sober book of travels, will be apt to imagine that he has stumbled on a romance, full of moat disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes, &c. For all this, indeed, he prepares us in his preface : — ' ft has been my fate,' says he, ' to...

...ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i'the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption...

...my frequently too boisterous, and sometimes dangerous, activity. On such occasions, she would tell " Of most disastrous chances, ' Of moving accidents by flood and field • ' Of antres vast, and deserts idle ; ' And of the cannibals that each other eat, ' The anthropophagi, and...

...disguise, we drew very cosily round the fire, and I amused them with my history : "Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, " Of moving accidents by flood and field, " Of hair-breadth 'scapes ;" which seemed to excite so lively an interest, that Julie entered into the spirit of the plot, with...

...ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i'lhe imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent fur, And sold to slavery ; of my redemption...

...much more brief. Mr Bennet recounted his valorous deeds among the rural rioters,— " Wherein he spoke of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach," and gave to his encounters much more of the " pride, pomp, and circumstance...

...ran it through, even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it. Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances ; Of moving accidents by flood and field ; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach ; Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery ; of my redemption...