So sudden is it all, and so like a flash of unreal fancy, that but for the flake of white foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and... Roughing it - Page 72by Mark Twain - 1873 - 591 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1871 - 604 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail sack, after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, niay be. INVERTED WATERMARKS. BY THE HEV. ROBERT B. EABEE, HIUMINO1IAM. THERE has been a good deal... | |
| Montgomery Gibbs - 1874 - 324 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." Brownson and Potter (433 miles), near which is the famous Prairie Dog City, where great numbers of... | |
| Englishman - 1876 - 268 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." Brownson and Potter (433 miles), near which is the famous Prairie Dog City, where great numbers of... | |
| Montgomery Gibbs - 1878 - 346 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." Brownsou and Potter (433 miles), near which is the famous Prairie Uog City, where great numbers of... | |
| Montgomery Gibbs - 1883 - 468 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." Brownson and Potter (433 miles), near which is the famous PRAIRIE Doo CITY, where great numbers of... | |
| Lady Ethel Gwendoline Moffatt Vincent - Voyages around the world - 1886 - 470 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had passed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." At 3 pm we were entering the great canon of the Arkansas. The Royal Gorge must have been formed by... | |
| Fitchburg Historical Society (Fitchburg, Wis.) - Fitchburg (Mass.) - 1895 - 284 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on the mail sack after the vision has flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all." Free delivery by carriers in the United States was not established until March 3, 1863, although, previous... | |
| Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 335 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on a mail-sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual...first-class curiosity, and a thing to be mentioned with £clat in letters to the ignorant at home. This water gave the road a soapy appearance, and in many... | |
| Historical Society of Southern California - California, Southern - 1901 - 768 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on our mail sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, may be." i OVERLAND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA IN 1850 BY JM STEWART. [Read before the Los Angeles County Pioneers... | |
| 1901 - 358 pages
...foam left quivering and perishing on our mail sack after the vision had flashed by and disappeared, we might have doubted whether we had seen any actual horse and man at all, may be." OVERLAND TRIP TO CALIFORNIA IN 1850 BY JM STEWART. [Read before the Los Angeles County Pioneers... | |
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