 | Thomas Ashe - Alleghany River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) - 1809 - 334 pages
...knees in his enemy's body ; fixing his claws in his hair, tuid his thumbs on his eyes, gave them ah instantaneous start from their sockets. The sufferer...citizens again shouted with joy. Doubts were no longer untertaincd ; and bets of tkrcc to ouğ offered on the Virginian. The Kentnckeyan not able to disentangle... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body ; fixing his claws in his hair and his thumbs...no complaint. The citizens again shouted with joy." Ashe asked his landlord whether this habit spread down the Ohio. " I understood that it did, on the... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1889 - 466 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body ; fixing his claws in his hair and his thumbs...no complaint. The citizens again shouted with joy." Ashe asked his landlord whether this habit spread down the Ohio. ... I again demanded how a stranger... | |
 | Archer Butler Hulbert - Ohio River - 1906 - 598 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body; fixing his claws in his hair, and his thumbs...of three to one were offered on the Virginian. The Kentuckian not being able to disentangle his adversary from his face adopted a new mode of warfare;... | |
 | Ronald H. Bayor - History - 2004 - 1032 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees on his enemy's e promotion of their comfort, and the preservation...even requires the separation of the two races in and bets of three to one were offered on the Virginian. The Kentuckian not being able to disentangle... | |
 | Elliott J. Gorn, Warren Goldstein - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body; fixing his claws in his hair, and his thumbs...The sufferer roared aloud, but uttered no complaint. Before it was over, the Kentuckian bit off the Virginian's nose, and in return, the Virginian ripped... | |
 | Henry Adams - History - 2006 - 244 pages
...never quit the subject on which they fasten till they taste blood, he kept his knees in his enemy's body; fixing his claws in his hair and his thumbs...no complaint. The citizens again shouted with joy." Ashe asked his landlord whether this habit spread down the Ohio. "I understood that it did, on the... | |
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... attitude among panthers and wolves. The shock received by the Kentuckian, and the want of breath, brought him instantly to the ground. The Virginian never lost his hold, like those bats of the South who never quit the subject on which they fasten... 