 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 428 pages
...close to the fire, and, having deployed into two lines and " proved distance," (as it is called in the sword exercise,) the time of the music was changed,...frame could possibly endure. At some passages they all sprung into the air a wonderful height, and, as then: feet again touched the ground, with the legs... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 430 pages
...close to the fire, and, having deployed into two lines and " proved distance," (as it is called in the sword exercise,) the time of the music was changed,...frame could possibly endure. At some passages they ah 1 sprung into the air a wonderful height, and, as their feet again touched the ground, with the... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Antipodes Islands (N.Z.) - 1855 - 688 pages
...step being enforced by a heavy stamp and a noise • Native women — from ywnj, mulier, evidently ! like a paviour's grunt. As the drum waxed faster so...frame could possibly endure. At some passages they all sprung into the air a wonderful height, and, as their feet again touched the ground with the legs wide... | |
 | Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...close to the fire, and, having deployed into two lines and ' proved distance ' (as it is called in the sword exercise), the time of the music was changed,...being enforced by a heavy stamp and a noise like a pavior's grunt. As the drum waxed faster, so did the dance, until at length the movements were as rapid... | |
 | Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...close to the fire, and, having deployed into two lines and ' proved distance ' (as it is called in the sword exercise), the time of the music was changed,...being enforced by a heavy stamp and a noise like a pavior's grunt. As the drum waxed faster, so did the dance, until at length the movements were as rapid... | |
 | Godfrey Charles Mundy - Australasia - 1852 - 430 pages
...close to the fire, and, having deployed into two lines and " proved distance," (as it is called in the sword exercise,) the time of the music was changed,...did the dance, until at length the movements were as^apid as the human frame could possibly endure. At some passages they all sprung into the air a wonderful... | |
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... from the field, and pursued into the dark void, where roars and groans, and the sound of blows, left but little to be imagined on the score of a bloody massacre. Presently the whole corps reappeared close to the fire, and, having deployed into two... 