 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - Arctic regions - 1857 - 544 pages
...going and tormenting the Strokr. Strokr — or the churn— you must know, is an unfortunate Geysir, with so little command over his temper and his stomach,...have been chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it has... | |
 | Frederick Temple Blackwood Marquis of Dufferin and Ava - Arctic regions - 1858 - 344 pages
...him from these liberties, you can approach to the very edge of the pipe, AN IRRITABLE HOT SPRING. 97 about five feet in diameter, and look down at the...have been chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it has... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...to collect a quantity of sods, and throw them down his funnel. As he has no basin to protect himself from these liberties, you can approach to the very...high, which carries with it all the sods that have boon chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested at your feet. So irritated has the poor... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...begins to disagree with him. He works himself up into an awful passion. Tormented by the qualms of sickness, he groans, and hisses, and boils up, and...which carries with it all the sods that have been cast in, and scatters them scalded and half digested at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's... | |
 | 1863 - 744 pages
...have just administered begins to disagree with him,'1 says Lord Dufterin, in his piquant account " He works himself up into an awful passion ; tormented...water forty feet high, which carries with it all the sous that have been chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested at your feet." Henderson... | |
 | George Herbert - 1863 - 732 pages
...have just administered begins to disagree with him,'1 says Lord Dufferin, in his piquant account. " He works himself up into an awful passion ; tormented...vehemence, until at last, with a roar of mingled pain and ruge, he throws up into the air a column of water forty feet high, which carries with it all the sods... | |
 | Wonders - 1866 - 400 pages
...alarm, we determined to revenge ourselves by going and tormenting the Strokr. Strokr, or the Churn, is an unfortunate geyser, with so little command over...been chucked in, and scatters them, scalded , and half-digested, at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it... | |
 | Edward Thomas Stevens - 1866 - 434 pages
...going and tormenting the strokr. Strokr — or the chm-n — you must know, is an unfortunate Geysir, with so little command over his temper and his stomach,...have been chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested at your feet. So irritated has the poor thing's stomach become by the discipline it has... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...begins to disagree with him; he works himself up into an awful passion. Tormented by the qualms of sickness, he groans and hisses, and boils up, and...up into the air a column of water forty feet high. This carries with it all the sods that have been chucked in, and scatters them scalded and half-digested... | |
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As he has no basin to protect him from these liberties, you can approach to the very edge of the pipe, about five feet in diameter, and look down at the boiling water which is perpetually seething at the bottom. In a few minutes the dose of turf you have... 
