| 1802 - 572 páginas
...*, , J » • • • r ' slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very tew minuses to overwhelm us ; and small quantities of .sand did...Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sjght, (heir (op! reaching to the very clouds ; there the tops often separated from the bodies ; and... | |
| John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 páginas
...stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals, we thought they were corning in a very few minutes to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually, more than once, reach H vis.. us. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 páginas
...stalking on wjth a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us : and small quantities of sand did...to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to tbe very dovtls ; there the tops often separated from the bodies i and these, once disjoined, dispersed... | |
| 1802 - 572 páginas
...stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did...would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tips reaching to the very clouds ; there the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 páginas
...stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming; in a very fewminutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did...almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very cloud* ; there the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 páginas
...stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand, did...of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds; their tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined dispersed in the air, and did... | |
| Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 páginas
...stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us: a^ain they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds ;... | |
| Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 páginas
...prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others (talking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought...very clouds. There the tops often separated from the hodies, and these once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were... | |
| Robert Southey - 1812 - 290 páginas
...terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from VV. and to N. W. of us, we saw a number of prodigious...quantities of sand did actually, more than once, reach us. A gain they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds.... | |
| Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 páginas
...with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwelm us ; and small quantities of sand did actually more...out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds ; their tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined dispersed in the cur, and... | |
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