 | Andrew Dickson White - 1896 - 452 pages
...throweth down the dragon. . . . The cause why the dragon desireth his blood is the coldness thereof, by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself....the dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that he openeth his 35 mouth against the wind to quench the burning of his thirst in that wise. Therefore,... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus), Robert Steeie - 1905 - 230 pages
...last after long fighting the elephant waxeth feeble for great blindness, in so much that he falleth upon the dragon, and slayeth in his dying the dragon...burning of his thirst in that wise. Therefore when he seeth ships sail in the sea in great wind, he flieth against the sail to take their cold wind, and... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus), Robert Steele - 1905 - 230 pages
...that him slayeth. The cause why the dragon iesireth his blood, is coldness of the elephant's blood, \J by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself....burning of his thirst in that wise. Therefore when he seeth ships sail in the sea in great wind, he flieth against the sail to take their cold wind, and... | |
 | Andrew Dickson White - 1926 - 452 pages
...throweth down the dragon. . . . The cause why the dragon desireth his blood is the coldness thereof, by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself....the dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that he openeth \. j* mouth against the wind to quench the burning of his thirst in that wise. Therefore,... | |
 | Arthur P. Mendel - 1999 - 364 pages
...wise, by the brain we feel, by the liver we love.... The cause why the dragon desireth the elephant's blood, is coldness of the elephant's blood by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself. 20 Asked whether or not a tree had feeling (a typically anthropomorphic medieval inquiry), Roger Bacon... | |
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... his blood. And at the last after long fighting the elephant waxeth feeble for great blindness, in so much that he falleth upon the dragon, and slayeth in his dying the dragon that him slayeth. The cause why the dragon desireth his blood, is coldness... 