 | John Warner Barber - 1851 - 484 sivua
...which indented the ground deeply, as they slowly turned this ponderous machine. Attached to it were sij cables, of the size and length of a ship's cable,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 sivua
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables...a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Thousands of men, women, and children, pulled each cable, crowding so densely that some could use only... | |
 | 1856 - 604 sivua
...stupendous car or tower, about sixty feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and length...a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along, l'pon the tower were the priests and satellites of the idol, surrounding his throne. I "as told that... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 626 sivua
...feet in h£ight,\restiug on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | John Foster - 1858 - 624 sivua
...feet in height,\reating on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables,...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour. His arms are of... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1858 - 296 sivua
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables...a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Thousands of men, women, and children pulled by each cable, crowding so closely, that some could only... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - 1858 - 288 sivua
...feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables...a ship's cable, by which the people drew it along. Thousands of men, women, and children pulled by each cable, crowding so closely, that some could only... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 272 sivua
...exert their strength in this office ; for it is accounted a merit of righteousness to move the god. Upon the tower were the priests and satellites of the idol surrounding his throne. I was told that there were about a hundred and twenty persons on the car altogether. The chief idol... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1870 - 530 sivua
...exert their strength in this office ; for it is accounted a merit of righteousness to move the god. Upon the tower were the priests and satellites of the idol surrounding his throne. I was told that there were about a hundred and twenty persons on the car altogether. The chief idol... | |
 | John Henry Gray - 1879 - 656 sivua
...the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, by which the people drew it along. Upon the tower...surrounding his throne. The idol is a block of wood, having a frightful visage painted black, with a distended mouth of a bloody colour; his arms are of... | |
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The throne of the idol was placed on a stupendous car or tower about sixty feet in height, resting on wheels which indented the ground deeply, as they turned slowly under the ponderous machine. Attached to it were six cables, of the size and length of... 
