 | 1802 - 572 pàgines
...*, , 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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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... to overwhelm us, and small quantities of sand did actually, more than once, reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. 
