 | John Stow - 1842 - 252 trang
...more expert in their sports upon the ice ; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shinbones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod...Sometimes two of the skaters having placed themselves a great distance apart by mutual agreement, come together from opposite sides ; they meet, raise their... | |
 | John Stow - 1842 - 254 trang
...more expert in their sports upon the ice ; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shmbones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod...Sometimes two of the skaters having placed themselves a great distance apart by mutual agreement, come together from opposite sides ; they meet, raise their... | |
 | John Stow - 1842 - 250 trang
...more expert in their sports upon the ice ; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shinbones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod...rapidity as a bird flying, or a bolt discharged from a eross-bow. Sometimes two of the skaters having placed themselves a great distance apart by mutual agreement,... | |
 | John Hewitt - 1855 - 424 trang
...with shields." In the Winter, skaters, " binding under their feet the shin-bones of some animal, take in their hands poles shod with iron, which at times they strike against the ice, and are thus carried along with the rapidity of a bird on the wing, or a bolt discharged from a cross-bow.... | |
 | John Hewitt - 1855 - 428 trang
...with shields." In the Winter, skaters, " binding under their feet the shin-bones of some animal, take in their hands poles shod with iron, which at times they strike against the ice, and are thus carried along with the rapidity of a bird on the wing, or a bolt discharged from a cross-bow.... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 trang
...for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shin bones of some animal, and taking in their hand poles shod with iron, which at times they strike against...themselves at a great distance apart by mutual agreement, coiue together from opposite sides ; they meet, raise their poles, and strike each other ; either one... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 182 trang
...their sports upon the ice ; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shinbones of some animals, and taking in their hands poles shod with iron, which...bolt discharged from a crossbow. Sometimes two of these skaters (as they are called), having placed themselves at a great distance apart, by mutual agreement,... | |
 | John Stow - 1876 - 256 trang
...ice ; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shinbones of some animal, and taking in Jheii1 hands poles shod with iron, which at times* they strike...Sometimes two of the skaters having placed themselves a great distance apart by mutual agreement, come together from opposite sides ; they meet, raise their... | |
 | 1880 - 786 trang
...more expert in their sports upon the ice, for, fitting to and binding under their feet the shin-bones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod...bolt discharged from a cross-bow. Sometimes two of tho skaters, having placed themselves at a great distance apart by mutual agreement, come together... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1904 - 452 trang
...more expert in their sports upon the ice ; for fitting to and binding under their feet the shin-bones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod...Sometimes two of the skaters having placed themselves a great distance apart, by mutual agreement come together from opposite sides ; they meet, raise their... | |
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Others are more expert in their sports upon the ice; for fitting to, and binding under their feet the shinbones of some animal, and taking in their hands poles shod with iron, which at times they strike against the ice, they are carried along with as... 
