 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1893 - 212 pages
...last after long righting the elephant waxeth feeble for great blindness, in so much that he fallcth upon the dragon, and slayeth in his dying the dragon...burning of his thirst in that wise. Therefore when he sceth ships sail in the sea in great wind, he flieth against the sail to take their cold wind, and... | |
 | Herbert West Seager - 1896 - 372 pages
...their tails together, and reareth up the heads, and sail over sea and over rivers to get good meat. The cause why the Dragon desireth his blood is coldness...by the which the Dragon desireth to cool himself. The Dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that unneath [hardly] he may have water enough to quench... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1926 - 672 pages
...sea and over rivers to get good meat. Between elephants and dragons is everlasting fighting. . . . And at the last after long fighting the elephant waxeth...the dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that never he may have water enough to quench his great thirst; and opcneth his mouth therefore against... | |
 | 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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The cause why the dragon desireth his blood, is coldness of the elephant's blood, by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself. Jerome saith, that the dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that... 