 There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols. Shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowly heaving his huge...  Introduction to the art of reading - Page 86by J C. Graham - 1861Full view - About this book
 | 1819 - 610 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....the surface ; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectrt, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all that I had heard or read of the... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1820 - 364 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....world beneath me ; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth; and... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1822 - 424 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....world beneath me ; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth ;... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1821 - 354 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....porpoises tumbling about the bow of the ship ; the grampus slowlyheaving his huge form above the surface; or the ravenous shark, darting, like a spectre, through... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....slowly heaving his huge form above the surface ; or the raveaous shark, darting like a spectre, through the blue waters. My imagination would conjure up all... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....world beneath me ; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth; and... | |
 | William Oxberry - English literature - 1824 - 384 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe, with which I looked down from my giddy height on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....world beneath me; of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys; of shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth; and those... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols....world beneath me : of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys; of the shapeless niouste*s that lurk among the very foundations of the earth, and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - 522 pages
...and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at theiruncouth gambols : shoals of porpoises tumbling about the bow...world beneath me : of the finny herds that roam its fathomless valleys ; of the shapeless monsters that lurk among the very foundations of the earth, and... | |
 | Moses Severance - Readers - 1832 - 312 pages
...or to watch the gentle undulating billows rolling their silver volumes, as if to die away on those monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols, —...the bow of the ship, — the grampus slowly heaving h;s huge form above the surface, — or the ravenous' shark, darting like a specter through the blue... | |
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