It was indeed a dreadful evening The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea-fowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent between two of the most magnificent yet most dreadful objects of nature, — -a raging... A manual of Latin prose composition - Pàgina 152per Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1857 - 190 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1816 - 686 pàgines
...bean there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, " in so awsome a night as this." ' It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...spray of some giant billow, which threw itself higher on the beach than those which had preceded it. Each minute did their enemy gain ground perceptibly... | |
| 1816 - 700 pàgines
...my hat, I winna believe but we'll get round the Ballyrburg Ness for a" that's come and gane yet.' " It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...devoted beings, who, pent between two of the most " The countenance of the old man fell. Isabella gave a faint •hriek, and ' God have mercy upon us... | |
| 1816 - 700 pàgines
...been there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, ' in so awsome a night as this.' " It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...three devoted beings, who, pent between two of the roost irtost magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature —a raging tide and an insurmountable... | |
| 1816 - 676 pàgines
...been there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, ' in so awsome a night as this.' " It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...sea-fowl, and sounded like the dirge of the three No.XVI.— Voi.III.— Avg.Ktv. M devoted being, who, pent between two of the most magnificent, yet... | |
| Walter Scott - 1816 - 328 pàgines
...titlea, though never, he acknowledged, " in so awsome a ni^hl as this .** l! WHS indeed a tlir.udful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the...like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent be twee u two of the most magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raging tide and an... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1821 - 248 pàgines
...had been there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, « in so awsomea night as this.» It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the storm mingled with the shrieks of the sea-fo\vl, and sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent between two of the Jftost... | |
| Walter Scott - 1833 - 880 pàgines
...had been there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, "in sae awsome a night as this." It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raping tide and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 356 pàgines
...acknowledged, that, although familiar with suffering and danger, he had never witnessed "sae awsome a night." " It was indeed a dreadful evening : the howling of...the storm, mingled with the shrieks of the seafowl, sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent up between two of the most magnificent,... | |
| George Newenham Wright - 1836 - 374 pàgines
...mingled with the shrieks of the seafowl, sounded like the dirge of the three devoted beings, who, pent up between two of the most magnificent, yet most dreadful objects of nature — a raging sea and an insurmountable precipice — toiled along their painful and dangerous path, often lashed... | |
| Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1839 - 482 pàgines
...J been there before in high tides, though never, he acknowledged, "in sae awsome a night as this." It was indeed a dreadful evening. The howling of the...spray of some giant billow, which threw itself higher on the beach than those that had preceded it. Each minute did their enemy gain ground perceptibly upon... | |
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