 | Gaius Julius Caesar - 1832 - 310 pages
...the encounter was this : that in agility, and a ready command of oars, we had indeed the advantage, but in other respects, regarding the situation of...our darts, because of their height above us ; which also was the reason that we found it extremely difficult to grapple the enemy, and bring them to close... | |
 | sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1847 - 508 pages
...all things ran very much in their favour : for neither could our ships injure them with their prows, so great was their strength and firmness ; nor could...our darts, because of their height above us, which also was the reason that we found it extremely difficult to grapple with the enemy, and bring them... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1847 - 674 pages
...different from the coracle. " Neither could our ships," he says, " injure them with their prows, go great was their strength and firmness, nor could we...throw in our darts, because of their height above us" It does not appear that the ships of the Britons were much altered or improved under the Roman dominion... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 338 pages
...1j Celtic Shipping. 3 much in their favour. For neither could our ships injure them in their prows, so great was their strength and firmness ; nor could...throw in our darts, because of their height above us, for which reason also we found it extremely difficult to grapple with the enemy and bring them to close... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1868 - 666 pages
...their favour. For neither could our ships injure them in their prows, so great was their strength aud firmness ; nor could we easily throw in our darts, because of their height above us, for which reason also we found it extremely difficult to grapple with the enemy and bring them to close... | |
 | 1879 - 496 pages
...storms, all things ran very much in their favour. For neither could our ships injure them in their prows, so great was their strength and firmness ; nor could...throw in our darts, because of their height above us, for which reason also we found it extremely difficult to grapple with the enemy and bring them to a... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1893 - 640 pages
...things ran very much in their favour; for neither could our ships injure them with their prows — so great was their strength and firmness — nor could...our darts because of their height above us, which also was the reason that we found it extremely difficult to grapple with the enemy, and bring them... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1893 - 638 pages
...neither could our ships injure them with their prows—so great was their strength and firmness—nor could we easily throw in our darts because of their height above us, which also was the reason that we found it extremely difficult to crapple with the enemy, and bring them... | |
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... so great was their strength and firmness ; nor could we easily throw in our darts, because of their height above us ; which also was the reason that we found it extremely difficult to grapple the enemy, and bring them to close fight. 