 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pàgines
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of Desert from west to north-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand,...different distances ; at times, moving with great celerity ; at others, stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals, we thought they were corning... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1802 - 572 pàgines
...sight surely one of the most magnificent in ths world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and- to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars...at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on wjth a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pàgines
...magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of (lesart, from west to the north-west of them, they saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals they thought they were ioming... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pàgines
...sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars...at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pàgines
...sight surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving withgrcat celerity, as others stalking on with a majestic slowness j at intervals we thought they were... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pàgines
...surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert from west to nor th-west of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand,...at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness. At intervals we thought they were coming in... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 288 pàgines
...terrified by a sight surely the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars...at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking with a majestic slowness : at intervals, we thought they were coming in... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pàgines
...by a sight surely one oflhemostmagnificientin the World. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand -dt different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic... | |
 | James Bruce - 1813 - 584 pàgines
...sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to NW of us, we saw a number of prodigious pillars...at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with a majestic slowness ; at intervals we thought they were coming... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1814 - 396 pàgines
...of tiie most magnificent tights in nature. In that vast expanse of desert, from west to north-west, we saw a number of prodigious pillars of sand, at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others proceedmg with a majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming suddenly... | |
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... few minutes 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... 
