 In the long, sun-bathed Brazilian afternoons, when the hum of insects, punctuated by the far-off cry of some bird, lulled me, I would lie in the shade of the verandah and gaze into the fair sky of Brazil, where the birds fly so high and soar with such...  My Air-ships - Page 23by Alberto Santos-Dumont - 1904 - 328 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1902 - 760 pages
...AIR-SHIPS BT ALBERTO SANroS-DUMONT IN Brazil, where I was born on July 20, 1873, the sky is so fair, the birds fly so high and soar with such ease on their great outstretched wings, the clouds mount up so gaily in the pure light of day, that you have only to raise your eyes to fall... | |
 | American literature - 1902 - 846 pages
...AIR-SHIPS BT ALBERTO SANTOS-DUMONT IN Brazil, where I was born on July 20, 1873, the sky is so fair, the birds fly so high and soar with such ease on their great outstretched wings, the clouds mount up so gaily in the pure light of day, that you have only to raise your eyes to fall... | |
 | Howard Mansfield - Historic preservation - 2001 - 310 pages
...insects, punctuated by the far-off cry of some bird, lulled me, I would lie in the shade of the veranda and gaze into the fair sky of Brazil, where the birds...soar with such ease on their great outstretched wings . . . and you have only to raise your eyes to fall in love with space and freedom. So, musing on the... | |
 | David Rothenberg, Wandee J. Pryor - Fiction - 2003 - 340 pages
...insects, punctuated by the far-off cry of some bird, lulled me, I would lie in the shade of the veranda and gaze into the fair sky of Brazil, where the birds fly so high and soar with such ease on their greet outstretched wings . . . and you have only to raise your eyes to fall in love with space and... | |
 | Bayla Singer - Transportation - 2003 - 244 pages
...weren't true." His favorite daydream was of ballooning, and he would spend long afternoons watching "the birds fly so high and soar with such ease on their great outstretched wings, . . . and you have only to raise your eyes to fall in love with space and freedom." Like other dreamers,... | |
 | Brazil - 1954 - 484 pages
...turned to the air. "I would gaze into the fair sky of Brazil," he wrote years later, "where the birds soar with such ease on their great outstretched wings,...the clouds mount so gaily in the pure light of day. You have only to raise your eyes to fall in love with space and freedom." At the University in Rio... | |
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