 ... as our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name of Irish horse ; salt pork of New England, which, though neither fish nor flesh, savoured of both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece...  The life of Augustus, viscount Keppel - Page 14by Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Tobias George [novels] Smollett - 1821 - 746 pages
...provision consisted of putrid salt-beef, to which the sailors gave the name of Irish horse ; salt-pork of New England, which, though neither fish nor flesh,...both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit wlieI"?of, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1824 - 320 pages
...supply the waste of twenty-four hours ; especially as onr provision consisted of putrid salt-beef, to which the sailors gave the name of Irish horse...of both; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett, Sir Walter Scott - 1835 - 558 pages
...liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty-four hours ; especially as our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name...both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
 | John Elliotson - 1839 - 764 pages
...and was neither fish nor flesh, but savoured of both. The bread came from the same country ; and the biscuit, like a piece of clockwork, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by myriads of insects that dwelt within it. The butter was served out by the gill ; and was exactly like... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1848 - 1048 pages
...as our provision consisted of putrid salt >eef, to which the sailors gave the name of Irish lorsc ; salt pork of New England, which, though neither fish...both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1870 - 668 pages
...liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty-four hours ; especially as our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name...both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1870 - 666 pages
...liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty-four hours ; especially as our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name...both ; bread from the same country', every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impiilse, occasioned by the myriads... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...waste of twenty-four hours ; especially as our provisions consisted of putrid salt beef, to which tho ting Strains I had heard, I ' fell down at his Feet...Compassion and Affability that familiar' izcd him to my Ima whereof, like a piece of clock-work, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
 | Epochs - 1882 - 794 pages
...gallon of liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty-four hours. . . Our provision consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name...horse"; salt pork of New England, which, though neither flesh nor fish, savoured of both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1883 - 382 pages
...liquor could scarce supply the waste of twenty- four hours ; especially as our provisions consisted of putrid salt beef, to which the sailors gave the name...both ; bread from the same country, every biscuit whereof, like a piece of clockwork, moved by its own internal impulse, occasioned by the myriads of... | |
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