By the time the latter had ascended the round-house, the light had disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves... Rural Repository - Page 101840Full view - About this book
| 1828 - 722 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves ; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| Washington Irving - America - 1828 - 574 pages
...as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
| English literature - 1828 - 438 pages
...as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the wares : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
| Washington Irving - 1828 - 502 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams; as if it were-a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| 1828 - 448 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves : or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
| Washington Irving - Biography & Autobiography - 1829 - 346 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and pass• ing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
| 1829 - 762 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams ; as it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves; or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to bouse. So transient and... | |
| 1830 - 428 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with...as he walked from house to house. So transient and uncertain were these gleams, that few attached any importance to them ; Columbus, however, considered... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Readers - 1832 - 338 pages
...disappeared. They saw it once or twice afterwards, in sudden and passing gleams, as if it were a torch in the bark of a fisherman, rising and sinking with the waves, or in the hand of some person on shore, borne up and down as he walked from house to house. So transient and... | |
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