 | Gilbert White, Samuel Reynolds Hole - 1900 - 668 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous...be levelled. It was in the month of February, when these birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, — the wedges were inserted into the opening,... | |
 | Reginald Bosworth Smith - 1905 - 500 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or the mallet, the tree nodded to its fall; but still the daw sat... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall ; but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | Henry Arthur Treble, George Henry Vallins - 1927 - 132 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....was applied to the butt, the wedges were inserted in the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its... | |
 | Walter Johnson - 1928 - 372 стор.
...venerable oak, but the bulging excrescence on which the ravens had fixed their eyry made every undertaking hazardous. " So the ravens built on, nest upon nest,...arrived in which the wood was to be levelled. It was the month of February, when those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the butt, the wedges were... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall; but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, eels, and even into the Fur Company's Fort, and into...stable where our horses were led. In this way, before to the heavy blows of the beetle or mallet, the tree nodded to its fall; but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | 1867 - 566 стор.
...jutted out so much in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....wedges were inserted into the opening, the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle and mallet, the tree nodded to its fall, but still the dam sat on.... | |
 | 1833 - 442 стор.
...jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous....those birds usually sit. The saw was applied to the but — the wedges were inserted into the opening — the woods echoed to the heavy blows of the beetle... | |
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... and each was ambitious of surmounting the arduous task. But, when they arrived at the swelling, it jutted out so in their way, and was so far beyond their grasp, that the most daring lads were awed, and acknowledged the undertaking to be too hazardous.... 
