 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 590 pagine
...bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name.' So I wot not if this be...real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird as our stories... | |
 | 1875 - 562 pagine
...bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name.' So I wot not if this be...real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird as our stories... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 668 pagine
...him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name.5 So I wot not if this be the real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird as our stories... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Mrs. Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams Winshaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1883 - 756 pagine
...bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of that island call the bird rue, and it has no other name, so I wot not if this be...real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird so great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird, as our stories... | |
 | 1881
...bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name.* So I wot not if this be...real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird as our stories... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1883 - 412 pagine
...and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird ' rue,' and it has no other name. I wot not if this be the real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lions, half birds, as our stories... | |
 | Marco Polo, Noah Brooks - 1897 - 318 pagine
...gryphon swoops down upon him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name. So I wot not if this be...real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird, as our stories... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 770 pagine
...him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird Rue, and it has no other name.5 So I wot not if this be the real gryphon, or if there be another manner of bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain, that they are not half lion and half bird as our stories... | |
 | 1882 - 612 pagine
...bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles call the bird rue, and it has no other name. So I wot not if this be the real gryphon, or if there be another bird as great. But this I can tell you for certain : that they are not half-lion and half-bird, as... | |
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And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high into the air, and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces ; having so killed him the bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats him at leisure. The people of those isles... 