 | Samuel Smiles - 1878 - 94 pàgines
...stretched as far as the eye could reach. It was gloaming by this time, and the line of English coastabout five miles distant — looked like a fog-bank. Night...to cross then. They must wait till the moon rose. It was midnight before its glitter shone upon the placid bosom of the Firth. The cattle-dealer then... | |
 | 1878 - 794 pàgines
...across the Solway Sands. Here is a picturesque situation, with a hairbreadth escape : " It was gloaming by this time, and the line of English coast — about five miles distant — looked like a fog bank. Night came on. It was too dark to cross then. They must wait till the moon rose. It was midnight... | |
 | 1878 - 802 pàgines
...across the Solway Sands. Here is a picturesque situation, with a hairbreadth escape : " It was gloaming by this time, and the line of English coast — about five miles distant — looked like a fog bank. Night came on. It was too dark to cross then. They must wait till the moon rose. It was midnight... | |
 | Geography reading books - 1880 - 238 pàgines
...shall not cross over into Scotland at present ; it will be better first to finish the coast of England. So we merely go far enough up the Solway to make sure...midnight. The cattle-dealer then rose, drew his beasts together, and drove them in upon the sands. They had gone but a short way when they observed that the... | |
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English coast — about five miles distant — looked like a fog-bank. Night came on. It was too dark to cross then. They must wait till the moon rose. It was midnight before its glitter shone upon the placid bosom of the Firth. The cattle-dealer then... 