 | 1802 - 572 pàgines
...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 these, once disjoined, dispersed in th: air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin - 1798 - 472 pàgines
...clouds. There the tops often feparated from th? bodies, and thefe, once disjoined, difperfed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if ftruck with large cannon-fhot. About noon they began to advance with confiderable fwiftnefs upon us,... | |
 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pàgines
...they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There, the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken in the middle, as if struck with large... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1802 - 346 pàgines
...Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies ; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | 1802 - 572 pàgines
...they 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 disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 444 pàgines
...they would retreat so as to be 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 air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1804 - 440 pàgines
...Again- they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds; there the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1807 - 438 pàgines
...Again they would retreat so as to be almost out 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 uot appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - 1808 - 452 pàgines
...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,...were broken in the middle, as if they were struck with large cannon-shot. At noon they began to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1809 - 292 pàgines
...Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching to the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies, and these once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large... | |
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... 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 actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat, so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching... 
